Speeches

Andrew Smith – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Smith on 2014-04-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applications have been made in Oxfordshire under the National Assistance Act 1948 by people without resources to meet their requirements or whose resources must be supplemented in order to meet their requirements in the last five years.

Norman Lamb

Information on the number of adult social care clients receiving council-funded services, including residential and domiciliary care, is collected by the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).

The HSCIC has provided the available information for Oxfordshire County Council over the five years 2008-09 to 2012-13. This is shown in the table.

Type of service

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

Residential care

1,350

1,245

1,155

1,170

1,120

Domiciliary care, of which:

Home care

4,625

5,010

3,675

3,125

2,820

Day care

1,880

1,820

1,680

750

630

Meals

465

330

295

175

155

Short term residential care (not respite)

0

0

0

0

0

Direct payments

925

1,040

1,400

1,530

Existing/new direct payments and personal budgets

1,050

Professional support

12,485

12,315

5,750

1,760

1,275

Equipment and adaptations

1,000

1,305

1,270

875

865

Other

1,125

1,045

2,285

505

445

Notes:

1. Data relates to adults 18 and over

2. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 5

3. All data are published and final

4. The ‘Existing/new direct payments and personal budgets’ columns in return P2f was introduced in 2009-10 to capture personal budgets and reverted back to direct payments in 2010-11. Service users who were receiving council commissioned services via a personal budget or direct payment were only included under this heading and not under the specific service received.

Sources:

Referrals, Assessments and Packages of Care (RAP) returns, tables P1 and P2f