§ Mr. O'BrienTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the estimate for community care services provided jointly by the health authorities and local authorities for 1991–92 to attend to the needs of the mentally handicapped and the mentally disabled transferred into the community; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. DorrellInformation about joint funding by health and local authorities of community care services is not collected centrally. We do however have figures for joint finance and dowry expenditure for 1989–90. In that year, health and local authority joint finance expenditure on services for people with learning disabilities and for people with mental illness was £60.4 million and £14.5 million respectively on revenue and £9.4 million and £0.8 million respectively on capital (England only; no capital figures for eight local authorities). Health authority dowry payments to local authorities for people with learning disabilities and for people with mental illness were £1.2 million and £12.3 million respectively (England only). Joint finance and dowry arrangements are described in HC(83)6, HC(84)9 and HN(86)11 copies of which are available in the Library.