Gary Walbridge (Head of Adult Social Care and Retained Functions) provided a verbal update on the position of the criteria for no right to reside, and highlighted that:

a)    No right to reside was a national criteria for measuring the number of people who were in a hospital bed, who no longer needed to be;

b)    Plymouth remained at 5%, meeting its target of 5%, with Devon and Cornwall at 5% and 10% respectively;

c)    The numbers had been relatively stable and Plymouth was the second best performing system in the South West.