To ask the Secretary of Stale for Social Security what are the standard rates for the cost of care and maximum rates now payable from the independent living fund; and how these rates were fixed.
The standard hourly rates for the cost of care and the overall maximum amounts payable from the independent living fund are set out in the table.In setting these amounts the trustees of the fund had regard to the cost of care provided by private carers and by care agencies in different parts of the country.
Area
| Hourly rate (£)(day care)
| Night care (£)(per night)
| Overall maximum (£)(weekly)
|
| London | 4·50 | 30 | 400 |
| South1 | 4·00 | 30 | 380 |
| Elsewhere | 3·50 | 25 | 325 |
1 Southern counties of England excluding Devon, Cornwall, Norfolk and Suffolk, up to the northern borders of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. | |||