HC Deb 05 December 1995 vol 268 cc192-3W
Ms Harman

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the total Department of Health budget for smoking and drug addiction among children in each of the last five years. [3764]

Mr. Bowis

The tables show the amounts spent by the Health Education Authority, on behalf of the Department of Health, on teenage anti-smoking programmes over the last five years, funding provided to health authorities for drug misuse services and expenditure on drug and solvent publicity for all age ranges. Activities relating to smoking and drug addiction among children are also included within other programmes undertaken by the Department of Health, the Health Education Authority and health authorities but specific costings are not available.

Funding for HEA's teenage smoking programme
Financial year Amount spent on teenage smoking work £
1991–92 £1,746,000
1992–93 752,000
1993–94 864,000
1994–95 863,000
1995–96 880,000

Funding for drug misuse services
Financial year Funding to health authorities to provide treatment services for drug misusers £ Million
1991–92 16.999
1992–93 20.043
1993–94 24.371
1994–95 25 .498
1995–96 26.748

In addition, £1 million has been provided in 1995–96 specifically to develop services for young people at risk from drug misuse.

Drug and solvent publicity
Year £
1991–92 3,924,413
1992–93 4,965,023
1993–94 5,296,284

Notifications of meningitis and meningococcal menningitis in West Yorkshire, by local authority districts, 1990–94
1990 1991 1992 1993 11994
All meningitis Meningococcal All menigitis Meningococcal All meningitis Menigococcal All meningitis Menigococcal All meningitis Menigococcal
Bradford 35 13 74 18 31 13 19 11 16 5
Calderdale 10 9 12 6 5 2 7 4 6 3
Kirkless 20 8 14 2 19 10 19 10 20 11
Leeds 43 12 55 9 41 12 24 11 30 16
Wakefield 29 7 30 8 18 6 15 6 13 3
11994 figures are provisional. Information is not available at district health authority level.