HC Deb 13 April 1981 vol 3 cc52-3W
Mr. Field

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many of the parliamentary questions asked of his Department in the last year have had answers drawn from information collected on the following statistical returns: SSDA 303, SSDA 302, SSDA 305, including questions answered from derivative statistics such as those prepared by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy; and what was the total expenditure on these services for the latest available year.

Sir George Young

During the last 12 months, three have been identified as using data drawn from the return SSDA 305. None has been identified as requiring information from returns SSDA 302, SSDA 303 or from any derived source.

The net expenditure by social services departments in England on the services covered by these returns amounted to approximately £200 million in the year ending 31 March 1980.

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