Residential Care

HC Deb 31 July 1998 vol 317 cc783-4W

Mr. Burstow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 27 July 1998,Official Report, column 93, concerning his Department's guidance LAC (98), what evidence he has submitted to the Royal Commission on topping-up payments. [54128]

Mr. Boateng

A factual note on topping-up has been prepared for the Royal Commission and copies are available in the Library.

Mrs. May

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he intends to issue his Department's forthcoming White Paper on the registration and inspection of residential care homes. [54038]

Mr. Boateng

The Department's Social Services White Paper will be published when Parliament returns after the summer recess.

Mr. Burstow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 21 July 1998,Official Report, column 531, concerning his Department's guidance, LAC (98)9, if he will place in the Library the legal advice that led Ministers to issue the revised guidance. [54477]

Mr. Boateng

The answer of 21 July 1998 concerned the Department's guidance LAC(98)8, not LAC(98)9. Its purpose was to clarify the legal position which has existed

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since 1948. The Department's view of the legal provisions is set out in chapter 6 of the publication A New Partnership for Care in Old Age which is available as a command paper 3242 in the Library.