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Mr. Hinchliffe
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance is issued by his Department to local authorities with regard to charging for domiciliary care service.
| Patient transport services: Table 1 | ||||
| 1990–91 | ||||
| Quality of service | ||||
| Emergency calls: Response times: Non-Metropolitan authorities | ||||
| England | ||||
| Ambulance authority | Total number of emergency calls | Number where response within 8 minutes | Percentage of calls where response where response within 8 minutes | Time at 50th percentile (minutes) |
| Cleveland | 23,784 | 15,323 | 64.4 | 7.0 |
| Cumbria | 14,365 | 7,983 | 55.6 | 7.2 |
| Durham | 29,510 | 15,718 | 53.3 | 7.4 |
| Humberside | 42,384 | 31,381 | 74.0 | 5.6 |
| North Yorkshire (1988–89 data) | 19,241 | 12,652 | 65.8 | 6.1 |
| Derbyshire | 36,569 | 17,992 | 49.2 | 8.0 |
| Leicestershire | 31,498 | 16,693 | 53.0 | 8.0 |
| Lincolnshire | 15,552 | 9,967 | 64.1 | 7.0 |
| Nottinghamshire | 53,649 | 31,306 | 58.4 | 8.0 |
| Cambridgeshire | 18,090 | 7,628 | 42.2 | 8.5 |
| Norfolk | 24,856 | 13,545 | 54.5 | 6.9 |
| Suffolk | 11,510 | 5,972 | 51.9 | 7.3 |
| Bedfordshire | 20,641 | 11,807 | 57.2 | 8.0 |
| Hertfordshire | 36,873 | 21,386 | 58.0 | 8.0 |
| Essex | 62,301 | 31,335 | 50.3 | 7.8 |
| East Sussex | 36,268 | 24,122 | 66.5 | 7.0 |
| Kent | 56,701 | 33,526 | 59.1 | 8.0 |
| Surrey | 46,772 | 23,853 | 51.0 | 7.8 |
| West Sussex | 25,957 | 15,547 | 59.9 | 7.0 |
| Dorset | 26,264 | 15,096 | 57.5 | 7.0 |
| Hampshire | 44,148 | 23,444 | 53.1 | 7.5 |
| Wiltshire | 14,904 | 9,589 | 64.3 | 6.3 |
| Isle of Wight | 4,271 | 2,021 | 47.3 | 7.5 |
| Berkshire | 27,482 | 12,914 | 47.0 | 9.0 |
| Buckinghamshire | 18,776 | 10,347 | 55.1 | 7.0 |
| Northamptonshire | 16,608 | 9,978 | 60.1 | 7.1 |
| Oxfordshire | 17,891 | 9,107 | 50.9 | 8.0 |
| Avon | 33,098 | 19,693 | 59.5 | 7.4 |
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | 16,371 | 6,662 | 40.7 | 10.0 |
| Devon | 32,681 | 17,648 | 54.0 | — |
| Gloucestershire | 15,400 | 9,227 | 59.9 | 8.0 |
| Somerset | 11,014 | 6,077 | 55.2 | 6.8 |
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
Existing guidance is contained in the Department's circular LAC(84)7, a copy of which is available in the Library. We intend to produce new guidance about the discretionary powers available to local authorities to make charges for domiciliary and day care services.