To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment he has made of the availability of residential care home places in (a) Bexley, (b) London and (c) England. (225924)

We were informed by the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) that the total numbers of residential care homes and places, as at 10 September 2008, were as shown in the following table. It should be noted that the figures shown are the total number of registered homes and places on the date shown. Information on occupancy levels and vacancy rates in care homes is not collected centrally.