HC Deb 07 July 1998 vol 315 c445W
Mr. Healey

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if she will make the residential care allowance available to people in local authority homes as it is to those in private homes; and if she will give the reasons which underlie her decision. [48069]

Mr. Keith Bradley

I refer my hon. Friend to my Written Answer to the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Mr. Burstow) of 19 January 1998,Official Report, column 448.