§ Mr. Malcolm BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 20 June,Official Report, column 205, on health expenditure, if she will specify the monetary sum relating to local authorities' new community care responsibilities for 1996–97, which is at present held in the Department of the Environment's local government programme. [31057]
§ Mr. BowisA sum of £2,256 million is at present held in the Department of Environment's local government programme for local authorities' new community care responsibilities for 1996–97. Part of this sum will form the special transitional grant for 1996–97 and will be transferred to this Department's programme. The amount is not yet decided.