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Care In The Community

Volume 324: debated on Wednesday 27 January 1999

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Mr. Gorrie

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what sums his Department currently allocates to councils for each person provided with residential accommodation under Care in the Community. [66636]

Mr. Galbraith

[holding answer 26 January 1999]: The allocations of resources to councils for their community care responsibilities are calculated with reference to a range of indicators, and not by allocating a sum per person. These indicators are agreed in consultation with COSLA.The resultant distribution forms part of each council's Grant Aided Expenditure assessment which individual authorities allocate to services on the basis of local need. The Grant Aided Expenditure allocations for councils' social work responsibilities announced in the recent local government settlement for 1999–2000 total £1.1 billion, an increase of £50 million on the current year.From 1 July 1999 this will be a matter for the Scottish Parliament.

Mr. Gorrie

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people in each council area are provided with residential accommodation under Care in the Community. [66637]

Mr. Galbraith

[holding answer 26 January 1999]: The number of adults cared for in local authority residential homes and the number in private or voluntary homes who are wholly or partially funded by local authorities in Scotland at 31 March 1997, are provided for each local authority in the table.

Local authority

Residents in LA establishments

Private/voluntary residents wholly or partially LA funded

Total

Aberdeen418437855
Aberdeenshire344335679
Angus189121310
Argyll & Bute164174338
Clackmannanshire692695
Dumfries & Galloway278228506
Dundee39984483
East Ayrshire122130252
East Dunbartonshire423678
East Lothian145131276
East Renfrewshire4392135
Edinburgh6696231,292
Falkirk189187376
Fife419269688
Glasgow1,1609782,138
Highland346416762
Inverclyde73178251
Midlothian14881229
Moray148113261
North Ayrshire126167293
North Lanarkshire418305723
Orkney Islands68977
Perth & Kinross177259436
Renfrewshire243223466
Scottish Borders213257470
Shetland Islands6439103
South Ayrshire165176341
South Lanarkshire437179616
Stirling108162270
West Dunbartonshire22847275
West Lothian21494308
Western Isles17718195
Scotland8,0036,57414,577

From 1 July 1999 this will be a matter for the Scottish Parliament.

Mr. Gorrie

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what figures his Department uses to determine the economic charge per room which housing associations and other providers under the Care in the Community scheme have to charge to meet the registration standards set for staffing, food and accommodation and their loan charges. [66638]

Mr. Galbraith

[holding answer 26 January 1999]: We do not calculate charges per room. Supported accommodation is only one of a large range of care options available to councils to meet their community care responsibilities. The distribution of funding—which is undertaken in consultation with COSLA—is not based on the cost of any one option.From 1 July 1999 this will be a matter for the Scottish Parliament.