§ Mr. HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions which local authorities he consulted prior to the provisional standard spending assessment settlement concerning the decision not to include those in residential care, nursing homes and long stay hospitals when counting the number of people aged 65 years or over for the purposes of calculating the social services elderly residential care standard spending assessment; and what their responses were. [64578]
§ Ms ArmstrongThe Standard Spending Assessment (SSA) Sub-group is the forum for discussions between local government and Government Departments about possible changes to SSA formulae.
Details of options for changes to the personal social services formula are set out in the Report of the SSA Sub-group for 1999/2000. Records of discussions with local government representatives on the appropriate client base for the elderly residential social services formula can also be found in the Sub-group reports for 1997–98 and 1998–99. Copies of these reports of the Sub-group are in the Library and are also available to local authorities on the internet.