HC Deb 25 January 2001 vol 361 cc686-7W
Mr. Dismore

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much funding in addition to original expenditure plans has been given to(a) Barnet health authority and (b) Barnet council to improve continuing and community care since May 1997; and for what purposes the money has been allocated; [144699]

(2) how much has been allocated to Barnet health authority from the Modernisation Fund; and on what the money has been spent; [144698]

(3) how much money has been allocated to Barnet health authority since May 1997 to tackle (a) waiting lists and (b) winter pressures; [144694]

(4) how much funding in addition to original expenditure plans has been allocated since May 1997 to Barnet health authority for additional cancer treatments; and what the money has been (a) spent on and (b) allocated to; [144695]

(5) how much funding in addition to original expenditure plans has been allocated to mental health services in Barnet health authority area since May 1997; and on what the money has been (a) spent and (b) allocated; [144697]

(6) how much funding in addition to original expenditure plans has been allocated to (a) Barnet health authority and (b) Barnet council since May 1997 for their care work. [144696]

Mr. Denham

The additional allocations made to Barnet health authority since May 1997 total £77 million and are set out in the table. We do not collect information centrally on how each allocation has been spent.

Between 1997–98 and 2000–01 the level of funding provided by central Government to the London borough of Barnet for social services increased by £10 million or 10.2 per cent. in real terms. Most of these additional resources have been provided through the revenue support grant and the council decides how to allocate and spend these additional resources.

£000
Recurrent Non-recurrent
Recurrent allocation increase
1998–99 6,178
1999–20001 12,899
2000–012 18,218
2001–023 17,919 2,399
Special allocations
1998–99 (drugs misuse HIV/AIDS, GMS cash limited) 940
1999–2000 (drugs misuse, HIV/AIDS) 138
2000–01 (drugs misuse, HIV/AIDS)4 281
Cancer services5
1997–98 breast cancer services 66
1998–99 colorectal cancer 63
1999–2000 lung cancer 68
Waiting lists5
1998–99 (including funding for whole systems approach) 1,955 658
1999–2000 waiting list performance fund/cancer out-patients 198 34
2000–01 cancer outpatients waiting times 64
2000–01 booked admissions pilots 256
2000–01 0/P long waiters (revenue rewards) 161
Winter pressures
1997–98 1,057
1998–99 1,190
1999–2000
2000–01 1,230
Mental Health5
1999–2000 67
2000–016 153
Other allocations increases
1997–98 4,200
1998–99 1,500
1999–2000 871 3,228
2000–01 363 1,096
Total additional allocations 60,314 17,136
Total recurrent and non recurrent 77,450
1 Includes modernisation funding £3,170,000 of which £1,706,000 was allocated for waiting lists and times
2 Includes modernisation funding distributed as part of allocations. £446 million nationally of which £22 million was allocated for mental health, £276 million for waiting times and £9 million for cancer (gynaecological). These totals were not analysed across individual health authorities.
3 Includes cost of living allowance and health inequalities adjustment as well as hypothecated funds for cancer and coronary heart disease (£450 million nationally), waiting times and access (£423 million nationally). These sums are not attributed to individual HAs.
4 HA allocations for drugs misuse and HIV/AIDS treatment and care and preon are not yet known for 2001–02.
5 Largely funded from modernisation fund moneys.
6 Includes £32,000 allocated with initial allocations.

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