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Private Care Homes

Volume 228: debated on Monday 12 July 1993

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To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make a statement on the details of his Department's implementation of the decision announced by the social security commissioner on 14 October 1992 relating to the eligibility for income support in respect of older people transferred from hospitals to private nursing homes.

The chief adjudication officer and the Secretary of State have appealed to the Court of Appeal against the commissioner's decision CIS/23/92 and the case is expected to be heard shortly. In the meantime, payment of the benefit awarded in the decision has been suspended.