§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 8 November 2001,Official Report, column 351W, on social services departments, if he will set out the amount of unallocated funds within the departmental expenditure limit (a) at the start of the financial year,(b) now and (c) the forecast outturn. [14959]
§ Jacqui Smith[holding answer 15 November 20011: The information requested is given in the table.
2001–02 departmental unallocated provision £000 Plan Forecast outturn1 NHS2 350,000 0 Personal social services 82,750 2,750 Total 432,750 2,750 1 This is the forecast outturn that will be reported to Parliament shortly in the spring supplementary estimates. 2 This is the total departmental unallocated provision for the national health service of which £90 million is for revenue expenditure and £260 million for capital expenditure. The planned departmental unallocated provision for PSS was for revenue expenditure only.