To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to detail the number of people in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust in receipt of (i) residential care packages; (ii) meals service care packages, and (iii) home help care packages, in each of the last three years.

(i) Information on the number of residential care packages in effect in the Northern Health and Social Care (HSC) Trust at the end of each quarter in the last three years is detailed in Table 1 below.

Table 1

Source: CC7 community information return

Information on care packages is available on the DHSSPS website at: http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/index/statistics/socialcare/residential-nursing-care-packages.htm

(ii) Information is available on the number of persons receiving a meals on wheels service in the Northern HSC Trust at 31 March in each of the last three years, as detailed in Table 2 below.

Table 2

Source: KMW2 community information return

1 Figures include services provided by private contractors.

2 Figures include the provision of frozen meals.

This information is published annually in the ‘Statistics on Community Care for Adults in Northern Ireland’ bulletin which can be found on the DHSSPS website at:

http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/index/statistics/socialcare/meals-on-wheels.htm

(iii) It is assumed that the term home help in the question relates to domiciliary care. Information is available on the number of persons receiving domiciliary care in the Northern HSC Trust during a survey week in September in each of the last three years, as detailed in Table 3 below.

Table 3

Source: CC7b community information return

This information is published annually in the ‘Domiciliary Care Services for Adults in Northern Ireland’ bulletin which can be found on the DHSSPS website at:

http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/index/statistics/socialcare/domiciliary-care.htm

Information relating to the survey week in September 2014 will be published on 12th February 2015.