§ Mrs. EllmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding has been made available to provide services for under-fives in Liverpool in each year since 1997. [41123]
§ Jacqui SmithData on funding to provide services specifically for children under 5 who are resident in Liverpool is not available. However, the following table provides details of total recurrent contract income and additional cash increases received over the last four years by the Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust 1047W from Liverpool Health Authority for the care and treatment of the authority's resident child population. Approximately 30 per cent of the child population in Liverpool are under 5 years old. The figures exclude paediatric intensive care and special assistance funding.
Total Recurrent Contract Recurrent Increase Non- Recurrent Increase Total Increase 1998–99 21,587,170 731,357 817,360 1,548,717 1999–2000 23,157,553 1,570,383 948,743 2,519,126 2000–01 24,885,218 1,727,665 572,609 2,300,274 2001–02 27,166,523 2,281,305 1,584,990 3,866,295