§ Chris RuaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what his estimate is of the total number of pensioners receiving a visit from a local authority home help in each of the past 10 years. [30566]
§ Jacqui SmithInformation on the number of pensioners receiving home help is not collected. The table shows the total number of households receiving home help/home care during a survey week from 1992 to 2000 and the number of contact hours provided to those households. Information relating to the age of the oldest member of the household was collected between 1992 and 1998 and is also given in the table. Households may have received more than one visit during the week.
Households receiving home help or home care, 1992 to 2000, England Survey week during september Rounded numbers Total number of households1 Contact hours2 Households where the oldest person was aged 65 or over 1992 528,500 1,687,000 476,200 1993 514,600 1,780,800 463,200 1994 538,900 2,215,100 453,100 1995 513,600 2,395,700 451,300 1996 491,100 2,486,700 427,000 1997 479,100 2,607,500 410,500 1998 447,200 2,607,400 378,100 1999 424,000 2,678,400 3— 20044 379,800 2,791,400 3— 1 Total number of households receiving home help or home care during the survey week. 2 Information on contact hours relates to all households and is not available by age. 3 Not collected 4 The method of collecting this information changed in 2000 so figures for this year are not strictly comparable with previous years. Source:
DH annual return HH1