Care Homes: Hertfordshire

Mike Penning
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many nursing homes have been inspected in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire in each year since 2000.

Phil Hope
The Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) took over the work of National Care Standards Commission on 1 April 2004. I am informed by the CSCI that the information shown in the table for nursing homes is only available from 2004. The information is also not collected for Hemel Hempstead separately and is only collected for the Hertfordshire council area.

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|Type of home          |31 March 2004|31 March 2005|31 March 2006|31 March 2007|31 March2008|
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|Care home with nursing|52           |54           |56           |56           |54          |
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|Total                 |276          |283          |290          |293          |290         |
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