Independent Living Fund

Mr. Terry Fields
To ask the Secretary of Stale for Social Security what are the standard rates for the cost of care and maximum rates now payable from the independent living fund; and how these rates were fixed.

Miss Widdecombe
The standard hourly rates for the cost of care and the overall maximum amounts payable from the independent living fund are set out in the table.In setting these amounts the trustees of the fund had regard to the cost of care provided by private carers and by care agencies in different parts of the country.

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