§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether the sums of (a) £9 million announced in October 1983 for inner city community health care and for specialist programmes for heart and kidney patients and (b) £16 million announced in January 1984 for returning patients to the community were drawn from money allocated to health programmes in the 1983–84 estimates and public expeniture plans; and in which sub-heads and expenditure plans for 1984–85 they are to be found.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeWe announced in October 1983 that we would be spending £9 million on improving primary health care in inner cities. This sum was additional to previous spending plans and quite apart from the priority we are giving to services for heart and kidney patients. We have steadily been increasing joint finance funds for health authorities each year in recent years and we are reserving centrally £16 million out of these funds to support pilot projects in new ways of promoting community care. Both sums are to be spent over four years and the 1984–85 expenditure is included in the Government's expenditure plans (CMND. 9143: Programme 11). The inner cities primary health care expenditure is at present provided for in Class XI, Vote 1, sub-head A1 and Vote 2, A1. The "Care in the Commmunity" pilot projects are financed from Class XI, Vote 1, sub-heads A1 and A2.