To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the average (a) cost of care paid by working-age disabled people and (b) number of hours of care per person available to working-age disabled adults in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne Central and (b) Newcastle City Council in each of the last five years.
Answered on
7 December 2021
The average weekly rate paid towards care by working-age disabled adults in Newcastle City Council in each of the last five years is shown in the following table.
Year | Nursing care | Residential care | Residential and nursing care |
2020-21 | £926 | £1,401 | £1,256 |
2019-20 | £925 | £1,079 | £1,030 |
2018-19 | £782 | £1,000 | £926 |
2017-18 | £910 | £1,228 | £1,113 |
2016-17 | £814 | £1,030 | £957 |
This information is not held at constituency level. Data on average cost of care for working age adults only in domiciliary care is not held centrally and data on the number of hours of care per person available to working-age disabled adults is not collected centrally.