§ Dr. HendronTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of the total social services budget was spent on child care provision in England in the last five years.
§ Mr. Bowis[pursuant to his reply, 19 December 1994, c. 987–88]I regret that there were clerical errors in the 1992–93 data given in my previous reply.
A corrected table of figures is as follows.
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Gross expenditure on personal social services in England Total Children's services £ million £ million per cent. 1988–89 3776.1 1164.3 30.8 1989–90 4204.4 1277.3 30.4 1990–91 4697.7 1449.4 30.9 1991–92 5127.4 1551.4 30.3 1992–93 5469.9 1653.8 30.2