HC Deb 17 March 2004 vol 419 cc346-7W
Mr. Jenkins

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hits have been recorded on the www.talktofrank.com website. [160064]

Caroline Flint

From its inception on the 23 May 2003 to the 23 January 2004, the FRANK website talktofrank.com has received 1,485,111 visits.

Mr. Jenkins

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) calls and (b) e-mails have been received by the Talk to Frank team; and how many (i) calls and (ii) e-mails have been sent by the Talk to Frank team to members of the public. [160065]

Caroline Flint

Since the launch of the Frank drug awareness campaign on the 23 May 2003, to the end of January 2004, the Frank helpline has taken 223,310 calls. The Frank website talktofrank.com, has also received and responded to 18,934 emails. The Frank telephone advisors do not initiate calls to the public.

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what public funds were spent on tackling drugs misuse in Crosby in(a) 1997–98 and (b) 2003–04. [160536]

Caroline Flint

The information is as follows:

Sefton drugs allocation—1997–98 £
Local Health Authority Block contracts 728,671
JMU Database 20,000
Pharmacy costs 100,000
Social Work team 100,000
Drug Misuse special allocation from DoH 374,000

In 2003–04 the total drugs allocation was £3,017,763. This figure includes new funding streams as part of the National Drug Strategy (please see following table), the two years are therefore not directly comparable. Breakdown of financial allocation to local constituencies is not available in the form requested as funding is allocated to Drug Action Team areas (Sefton).

£
National Drug Strategy 2003–04
Partnership Capacity 71,500
Treatment Pooled Budget 1,336,000
Through Care After Care Pump Priming 35,000
Building Safer Communities1 484,700
1Contains non drug elements

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