§ Mr. Malcolm BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will specify the categories and amounts of expenditure on health, other than on spending on the national health service, contained within the estimates for health expenditures in(a) 1995–96 and (b) 1996–97, as set out in table 6A.3 of the "Financial Statement and Budget Report 1995–96." [28965]
§ Mr. SackvilleThe information is shown in the table. The figures in table 6A.3 of the "Financial Statement and Budget Report" are for spending by the Department of Health and the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys combined, as the notes to the table make clear.
£ million 1995–96 1996–97 National Health Service 31,971 32,937 Personal Social Services 43 42 Civil Defence 3 3 Central government grants to local authorities 760 114 Credit approvals 144 137 Total Department of Health 32,921 33,234 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 36 38 Total DH and OPCS 32,957 33,271 Notes:
These details were published in the Departmental Report (Cm 2812) in March 1995.
Funding plans in the Financial Statement and Budget Report are by convention rounded to the nearest £10 million.
The apparent decrease in central government grants to local authorities between 1995–96 and 1996–97 is because resources for local authorities' new community care responsibilities for 1996–97 205W are currently held in the Department of the Environment's local government programme.