§ Chris RuaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent on drug awareness programmes in England in each of the last 20 years. [25124]
§ Ms BlearsThe Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has made the following amounts available to directly support drug, alcohol and tobacco education in schools through the Standards Fund, Grants for Education and Support Training, and Education Support Grants. The figures in the table are from 1986–87 to 2002–03. DfES may have made moneys available prior to 1986–87 and will have also made other moneys available to support drug, alcohol and tobacco education in schools indirectly, but these figures could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
£ million 1986–87 2.0 1987–88 2.0 1988–95 0 1995–96 5.9 1996–97 5.8 1997–98 5.8 1998–99 7.0 1999–2000 7.5 2000–01 7.5 2001–02 13.1 2002–03 13.2 The following table details the DfES moneys allocated to the Health Education Authority (HEA) through the Standards Fund for Drug Education. These figures taken 944W from the HEA's annual reports indicate how much was spent in the year beginning 1995 to 2000 on drug awareness programmes. These figures are taken from funding for drug education programmes as a whole.
£ million 1995–96 3.8 1996–97 4.7 1997–98 4.8 1998–99 2.0 1999–2000 1.3 The Department also funded the HEA's National Drugs Campaign. Before 1998–99, the figure for the HEA National Drugs Campaign was £5 million per year. For 1998–99 the Department paid £2.0 million. For 1999–2000 and in 2000–01 the HEA had finished its work.