§ Mr. DunnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list by local authority, the average weekly cost of providing a place in(a) residential care homes and (b) nursing homes administered by social services departments. [21401]
§ Mr. Bowis[holding answer 20 March 1996]: The readily available information about residential care homes is not in the form requested. It is possible to construct gross weekly figures of expenditure on residential care placements of elderly people in local authority homes, from information supplied by local authorities, but these do not consistently reflect the full weekly average cost because of variations between local authorities in the method of including indirect costs and overheads. A table of figures will be placed in the Library: There are no nursing homes administered by social services departments.