FOI reference: FOI-2025-2825
You asked
I wonder if I could ask the following under an FOI please:
- Can you confirm how many care homes there are in England, Scotland and Wales please?
- Can you confirm how many are foreign owned?
- Can you confirm how many are Saudi Arabia owned?
- If possible can you confirm what the lifespan is in foreign owned homes compared to UK owned?
- Are there any stats concerning assaults by carers in care homes? If so please could I have confirmation of the number of cases for the last five years?
- If the above information is available for question 5, is there a breakdown of this information for foreign and non foreign owned owners of care homes?
- How many retirement villages are there now in the UK please, eg the caravans sites and homes where only over a certain age can live?
- How much government money has been spent on schemes in the last fives years to help keep people in their own homes ?
We said
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request, enquiring information on care homes within the UK.
We hold information in scope of your questions 1 to 3. However, we would need to create a bespoke output to fulfil this request. This output can be created by our Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) data service team, who can be contacted at IDBRDAS@ons.gov.uk. Depending on the time needed to produce the request, the data could be chargeable. If you contact the team, they will be able to advise you further on your request. As this information is reasonably accessible through another route, even if only accessible on payment, Section 21(2)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies.
With regards to the remaining questions of your request (4 to 8), we unfortunately do not hold this information.