Nursing Homes Mr. Wigley To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of private and voluntary residential care and nursing homes the independent sector provides for each year since 1980 in Wales. Mr. Grist Private and voluntary residential homes are all in the independent sector. Mr. Wigley To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many people are employed by (a) voluntary registered homes, (b) private registered homes and (c) local authority homes in Wales; and, in each case, what appropriate formal qualifications they have. Mr. Grist The number of people employed by voluntary and private registered homes is not held centrally. The number of people employed in local authority homes as at 30 September 1989 is shown in the following table. Information on their appropriate formal qualifications is not held centrally.1980; and if he will estimate what the change will be in these figures in the future due to changes in community care policy. Mr. Grist The number of residents aged 65 years and over in accommodation for elderly people in local authority and private and voluntary residential homes is shown in the following table: -- || -- || -- Changes in patterns and volumes of care will take place on the basis of social care plans which are to be produced by social services authorities working with health authorities and other interests and which are to be published by April 1991. Mr. Wigley To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many residents in voluntary and private homes were sponsored by local authorities for each year since 1980; and what information he has on the proportion accounted for by supported residents in (a) voluntary homes and (b) private homes in Wales. Mr. Grist The data as at 31 March are shown in the following table:------ | | ------ |1980| ------ |1981| ------ |1982| ------ |1983| ------ |1984| ------ |1985| ------ ----------- | | ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- ------ | | ------ |1986| ------ |1987| ------ |1988| ------ |1989| ------ Mr. Wigley To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many (i) private registered homes, (ii) voluntary registered homes and (iii) local authority homes for the elderly there were in each local authority in Wales (a) how many places these provided and (b) how many residents there were, for each year since 1980; and what estimate he has made of the likely change in these figures as a result of changes in community care. Mr. Grist The information required is shown in the following table. Changes in patterns and volumes of care will take place on the basis of social care plans which are to be produced by social services authorities working with health authorities and other interests, and which are to be published by April 1991. ----------- | | ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- ----------- | | ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| ----------- |Homes | ----------- |Places | ----------- |Residents| -----------