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Miss Wright
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what information is now available regarding the actual and projected number of residential places provided by local authorities for the elderly, for mentally-handicapped adults and for children in care; and if he will publish this information in tabular form
Metropolitan district authority | Number of LA supported residents aged 65 and over 31 March 1979 (provisional) | Number of residential places for the mentally handicapped adults available to LA 31 March 1979 | Places for children in care 31 March 1979* |
Gateshead | 587 | 29 | 122 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 934 | 74 | 369 |
North Tyneside | 492 | 21 | 115 |
South Tyneside | 450 | 16 | 102 |
Sunderland | 714 | 44 | 358 |
Barnsley | 542 | 34 | 83 |
Doncaster | 687 | 98 | 149 |
Rotherham | 498 | 37 | 173 |
Sheffield | 1,532 | 152 | 480 |
Bradford | 1,370 | 89 | 553 |
Calderdale | 627 | 54 | 178 |
Kirklees | 1,179 | 84 | 323 |
Leeds | 1,849 | 214 | 806 |
Wakefield | 700 | 74 | 186 |
Bolton | 716 | 75 | 196 |
Bury | 496 | 66 | 91 |
Manchester | 1,891 | 162 | 861 |
Oldham | 612 | 98 | 127 |
Rochdale | 541 | 70 | 145 |
Salford | 741 | 128 | 197 |
Stockport | 624 | 86 | 176 |
Tameside | 445 | 83 | 64 |
Trafford | 462 | 46 | 77 |
Wigan | 673 | 114 | 183 |
Knowsley | 247 | 55 | 78 |
Liverpool | 1,719 | 272 | 478 |
Sefton | 738 | 112 | 86 |
St. Helens | 322 | 70 | 61 |
Wirral | 1,246 | 102 | 166 |
Birmingham | 2,832 | 214 | 1,587 |
Coventry | 606 | 83 | 272 |
Dudley | 411 | 50 | 86 |
Sandwell | 800 | 28 | 155 |
Solihull | 301 | 72 | 87 |
Walsall | 554 | 54 | 105 |
Wolverhampton | 745 | 74 | 178 |
Total | 29,883 | 3,134 | 9,463 |
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* Figures are provisional and relate to places in local authority controlled and maintained children's residential accommodation. Places in assisted and voluntary homes have been excluded. |
for the English metropolitan district authorities, showing the actual and projected numbers at 31 March 1979, together with the most recently revised figures of each category for each local authority.
Sir George Young
The latest information on the number of places provided by local authorities for the elderly, for mentally handicapped adults and for children in care for metropolitan district authorities in England is shown in the following table: