FULL LIST OF COUNCIL RESPONSES
FoI requests were placed with all 150 English councils which provide social services. They were asked: "In how many cases in the 2007-08 financial year did your local authority use discretion to disregard the value of a person's home when deciding on the charge they should pay for their residential care?"; and "In how many cases in the 2007-08 did your local authority use discretion to agree a deferred payment arrangement for a person going into residential care whereby a charge against the value of their property is not collected until the end of the contract?" All responses are listed below (statistics for the number of people who went into residential care were provided by the NHS information centre).
Local authority	Number who went into residential care 2007-08 (IC stats)	Disretionary disregard of home value	Rate per 100 admissions	Deferred payment to contract end	Rate per 100 admissions
Barking and Dagenham	150	1	0.7	3	2
Barnet	260	0	0	0	0
Barnsley	260	1	0.4	0	0
Bath and North East Somerset	295	3	1	25	8.5
Bedfordshire	495	Not held		1	0.2
Bexley
Birmingham
Blackburn	195	4	2.1	0	0
Blackpool	295	0	0	0	0
Bolton	370	23	6.2	3	0.8
Bournemouth	300	0	0	44	14.7
Bracknell Forest	75	0	0	1	1.3
Bradford	655	14	2.1	56	8.5
Brent	210	26	12.4	0	0
Brighton and Hove	370	0	0	10	2.7
Bristol	530	1	0.2	0	0
Bromley	345	2	0.6	15	4.3
Buckinghamshire	495	0	0	167	33.7
Bury
Calderdale	250	3	1.2	2	0.8
Cambridgeshire	630	10	1.6	25	4
Camden	170	unavailable		4	2.4
Cheshire	975	152	15.6	108	11.1
City of London	9	0	0	0	0
Cornwall	665	2	0.3	8	1.2
Coventry	270	2	0.7	1	0.4
Croydon
Cumbria	750	no available		90	12
Darlington	165	0	0	9	5.5
Derby	320	8	2.5	30	9.4
Derbyshire	1060	0	0	80	7.5
Devon	1020	3	0.3	72	7.1
Doncaster
Dorset	640	6	0.9	100	15.6
Dudley	365	1	0.3	64	17.5
Durham	760	33	4.3	13	1.7
Ealing	170	0	0	3	1.8
East Riding of Yorkshire	575	2	0.3	30	5.2
East Sussex	1000	4	0.4	74	7.4
Enfield	240	2	0.8	9	3.8
Essex	1585	Not held		77	4.9
Gateshead	310	2	0.6	5	1.6
Gloucestershire	945	Not held		Not held
Greenwich
Hackney	145	0	0	0	0
Halton
Hammersmith and Fulham	175	0	0	4	2.3
Hampshire	1645	Not held		293	17.8
Haringey	155	0	0	0	0
Harrow	190	Not held		Not held
Hartlepool
Havering	270	12	4.4	0	0
Herefordshire	210	0	0	21	10
Hertfordshire	1540	18	1.2	38	2.5
Hillingdon
Hounslow	100	1	1	2	2
Isle of Wight	245	0	0	44	18
Isles of Scilly	1	0	0	0	0
Islington	140	0	0	0	0
Kensington and Chelsea	75	0	0	4	5.3
Kent	1850	11	0.6	19	1
Kingston upon Hull	425	0	0	0	0
Kingston upon Thames	145	10	6.9	12	8.3
Kirklees
Knowsley	235	10	4.3	0	0
Lambeth	195	0	0	9	4.6
Lancashire
Leeds	830	3	0.4	35	4.2
Leicester	345	2	0.6	53	15.4
Leicestershire	850	0	0	149	17.5
Lewisham	225	0	0	0	0
Lincolnshire	1000	152	15.2	318	31.8
Liverpool	495
Luton	145	0	0	unavailable
Manchester
Medway Towns	320	not available		46	14.4
Merton	160	2	1.3	4	2.5
Middlesbrough	165	0	0	17	10.3
Milton Keynes	195	0	0	0	0
Newcastle upon Tyne	420	Not held		24	5.7
Newham	110	0	0	45	40.9
Norfolk	925	6	0.6	170	18.4
North East Lincolnshire
North Lincolnshire
North Somerset	350	0	0	0	0
North Tyneside	280	0	0	0	0
North Yorkshire	855	exceeds cost limit		exceeds cost limit
Northamptonshire
Northumberland	575	Not held		1	0.2
Nottingham	295	not supplied		0	0
Nottinghamshire	1120	6	0.5	15	1.3
Oldham	320	0	0	24	7.5
Oxfordshire	555	3	0.5	7	1.3
Peterborough	180	0	0	4	2.2
Plymouth	300	Not held		18	6
Poole	205	0	0	18	8.8
Portsmouth	270	24	8.9	27	10
Reading
Redbridge	255	1	0.4	3	1.2
Redcar and Cleveland	235	10	4.3	5	2.1
Richmond upon Thames	180	Not held		31	17.2
Rochdale	330	1	0.3	28	8.5
Rotherham	400	0	0	24	6
Rutland	40	0	0	2	5
Salford	305	0	0	22	7.2
Sandwell	340	9	2.6	58	17.1
Sefton	480	not recorded		12	2.5
Sheffield
Shropshire	415	exceeds cost limit		exceeds cost limit
Slough	80	0	0	8	10
Solihull
Somerset	945	No record		0	0
South Gloucestershire	340	0	0	0	0
South Tyneside	270	12	4.4	27	10
Southampton	280	0	0	30	10.7
Southend on Sea	285	0	0	44	15.4
Southwark	250	0	0	3	1.2
St. Helens	285	0	0	18	6.3
Staffordshire	905	0	0	3	0.3
Stockport	385	15	3.9	5	1.3
Stockton-on-Tees	285	5	1.8	24	8.4
Stoke-on-Trent
Suffolk	1150	5	0.4	10	0.9
Sunderland	360	Not held		0	0
Surrey	1505	0	0	56	3.7
Sutton	150	not collected		2	1.3
Swindon
Tameside
Telford & Wrekin	155	Not held		5	3.2
Thurrock	250	6	2.4	10	4
Torbay	310	Not held		Not held
Tower Hamlets	145	none		2	1.4
Trafford	255	1	0.4	18	7.1
Wakefield	405	30	7.4	2	0.5
Walsall
Waltham Forest	230	0	0	0	0
Wandsworth	145	2	1.4	1	0.7
Warrington
Warwickshire	505	exceeds cost limit		exceeds cost limit
West Berkshire	145	4	2.8	1	0.7
West Sussex	930	Not held		114	12.3
Westminster	240	0	0	0	0
Wigan	445	20	4.5	14	3.1
Wiltshire	645	3	0.5	8	1.2
Windsor and Maidenhead	160	2	1.3	8	5
Wirral	685	0	0	42	6.1
Wokingham	155	0	0	5	3.2
Wolverhampton	335	21	6.3	52	15.5
Worcestershire	795	4	0.5	95	11.9
York.	235	0	0	31	13.2