§ Mr. BoswellTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Daventry on 10 December 2001,Official Report, column 617W, if he can now publish the findings of his literature and good practice reviews on vocational rehabilitation; and what progress has been made in developing conjunction with the Department of Health and national strategy for vocational rehabilitation. [48295]
§ Mr. Nicholas BrownThe report "Employment Programmes for Disabled People: Lessons from Research Evaluations" was published on 30 January 2002 as Report No. 90 in the departmental in-house report series. A copy is available in the Library.
Ministers from this Department and the Department of Health intend to meet in the near future to discuss possible arrangements for joint working on vocational rehabilitation.
Table 1: Cash terms 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 Budgets (£ million) CCG Budget 97.0 98.0 98.0 100.0 103.0 108.0 Loans Budget 370.0 402.7 436.7 494.0 516.6 518.0 Contingency Reserve 0.5 0.5 0.5 2.0 1.0 1.0 In-year allocation to loans budget (£ million) 0 2.2 21.2 30.6 31.1 n/a Outturn (£) CCG expenditure 96,499,000 97,774,000 98,139,000 99,978,000 n/a n/a Loans expenditure 366,225,000 404,364,000 457,784,000 501,150,000 n/a n/a
Table 2: Real terms (at 2001–02 prices) 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 Budgets (£ million) CCG Budget 106.6 104.7 102.3 102.5 103.0 Loans Budget 406.5 430.4 455.9 506.4 516.6 Contingency Reserve 0.5 0.5 0.5 2.1 1.0 In-year allocation to loans budget (£ million) 0 2.4 22.1 31.4 31.4 Outturn (£) CCG expenditure 106,010,000 104,489,000 102,443,000 102.443,000 n/a Loans expenditure 402,320,000 432,134,000 477,859,000 513.679,000 n/a Notes:
1. Figures for budgets and in-year allocations are rounded to the nearest £100,000
2. n/a means figures are not yet available
Source:
Annual Reports by the Secretary of State on the Social Fund 1997–98 to 2000–01 Social Fund Accounts 1997–98 to 2000–01