HC Deb 07 February 1995 vol 254 cc158-9W
Dr. Hendron

To 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.

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