Community Care Services Grant

HC Deb 23 October 2001 vol 373 cc156-7W

Mr. Burstow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) to what extent social services departments in receipt of the community care services grant are able to commit expenditure in subsequent years; [8917]

(2) if payment of the community care services grant will be conditional on local authorities participating in care trusts. [8916]

Jacqui Smith

[holding answer 22 October 2001]: Consultation on the conditions of the grant will end on 24 October. No decisions have been made about allocations of the grant in 2002–03, but Ministers have made the commitment that no council will receive less in 2002–03 than it does in 2001–02.