HC Deb 06 March 2002 vol 381 cc451-61W
Mr. Burstow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much each local authority responsible for implementing the Quality Protects programme under LAC(98)28 and subsequent circulars budgeted to spend in 2001–02; and what the(a) actual and (b) budgeted spend was in the previous two years. [39311]

Jacqui Smith

[holding answer 4 March 2002]: The tables set out the quality protects grant allocations made to local authorities with social services functions for 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01 and 2001–02, together with the actual amounts spent by each authority on implementing the programme in the first three years.

Quality Protects—1998–99
£
Grunt allocation Expenditure incurred
Barking and Dagenham 31,000.00 38,214.00
Barnet 32,500.00 25,347.00
Barnsley 32,500.00 35,296.00
Bath and North East Somerset 32,500.00 40,299.00
Bedfordshire 32,500.00 32,674.41
Bexley 32,500.00 32,848.00
Birmingham 32,500.00 32,500.00
Blackburn with Darwen 32,500.00 33,897.00
Blackpool 32,500.00 31,637.00
Bolton 32,500.00 32,691.41
Bournemouth 32,500.00 14,154.00
Bracknell Forest 32,500.00 32,500.00
Bradford 32,500.00 31,790.00
Brent 32,500.00 34,466.75
Brighton and Hove 32,500.00 32,943.00
Bristol 32,500.00 34,494.12
Bromley 32,500.00 32,747.00
Buckinghamshire 32,500.00 45,153.00
Bury 32,500.00 49.807.00
Calderdale 32,500.00 32,934.38
Cambridgeshire 32,500.00 35,680.00
Camden 32,500.00 34,825.00
Cheshire 32,500.00 32,500.00
City of London 3,000.00 5,000.00
Cornwall 32,500.00 45,563.00
Coventry 32,500.00 33,213.00
Croydon 32,500.00 34,973.00
Cumbria 32,500.00 33,110.00
Darlington 32,500.00 34,242.00
Derby 32,500.00 32,980.00
Derbyshire 32,500.00 32,816.00
Devon 32,500.00 32,500.00
Doncaster 32,500.00 25,544.89
Dorset 32,500.00 34,502.00

Quality Protects—1998–99
£
Grunt allocation Expenditure incurred
Dudley 32,500.00 34,544.00
Durham 32,500.00 34,542.42
Ealing 32,500.00 32,500.00
East Riding of Yorkshire 32,500.00 35,820.00
East Sussex 32,500.00 32,500.00
Enfield 32,500.00 32,979.00
Essex 32,500.00 32,500.00
Gateshead 32,500.00 31,731.00
Gloucestershire 32,500.00 32,100.00
Greenwich 32,500.00 32,756.00
Hackney 32,500.00 34,369.22
Halton 32,500.00 35,696.82
Hammersmith and Fulham 32,500.00 32,831.37
Hampshire 32,141.00 33,035.18
Haringey 32,500.00 37,046.00
Harrow 32,500.00 32,584.00
Hartlepool 32,500.00 24,801.00
Havering 32,500.00 32,774.00
Herefordshire 32,500.00 37,345.14
Hertfordshire 32,500.00 49,257.00
Hillingdon 32,500.00 9,531.95
Hounslow 32,500.00 48,093.00
Isle of Wight 32,500.00 32,510.00
Isles of Scilly 3,000.00 3,000.00
Islington 32,500.00 30,435.00
Kensington and Chelsea 32,500.00 32,500.00
Kent 32,500.00 32,500.00
Kingston upon Hull 32,500.00 32,500.00
Kingston upon Thames 32,500.00 32,633.62
Kirklees 32,500.00 30,062.64
Knowsley 32,500.00 28,347.00
Lambeth 32,500.00 32,885.00
Lancashire 32,500.00 39,783.00
Leeds 32,500.00 32,500.00
Leicester City 32,500.00 34,424.00
Leicestershire 32,500.00 33,871.57
Lewisham 32,500.00 33,754.00
Lincolnshire 32,500.00 32,653.16
Liverpool 32,500.00 34,541.00
Luton 32,500.00 32,561.72
Manchester 32,500.00 32,500.00
Medway 32,500.00 32,500.00
Merton 32,500.00 28,252.00
Middlesbrough 32,500.00 32,753.00
Milton Keynes 32,500.00 33,221.00
Newcastle upon Tyne 32,500.00 33,812.36
Newham 32,500.00 32,804.00
Norfolk 32,500.00 42,691.00
North East Lincolnshire 32,500.00 31,225.14
North Lincolnshire 32,500.00 35,322.31
North Somerset 32,500.00 32,544.00
North Tyneside 32,500.00 33,095.00
North Yorkshire 32,500.00 27,199.00
Northamptonshire 32,500.00 32,500.00
Northumberland 32,500.00 34,072.00
Nottingham 32,500.00 38,107.00
Nottinghamshire 32,500.00 38,123.00
Oldham 32,500.00 38,652.00
Oxfordshire 32,500.00 32,500.00
Peterborough 32,500.00 32,464.00
Plymouth 32,500.00 32,160.00
Poole 32,500.00 32,500.00
Portsmouth 32,500.00 29,616.00
Reading 32,500.00 35,109.00
Redbridge 32,500.00 32,717.43
Redcar and Cleveland 32,500.00 32,613.09
Richmond upon Thames 32,500.00 33,316.00
Rochdale 32,400.00 32,508.00

Quality Protects—1998–99
£
Grant allocation Expenditure incurred
Rotherham 32,500.00 32,529.00
Rutland 32,500.00 33,195.00
Salford 32,500.00 23,827.00
Sandwell 32,500.00 32,266.00
Sefton 32,500.00 32,500.00
Sheffield 32,500.00 25,662.47
Shropshire 32,500.00 29,299.77
Slough 32,500.00 16,867.27
Solihull 32,500.00 34,505.00
Somerset 32,500.00 32,500.00
South Gloucestershire 32,500.00 34,734.00
South Tyneside 32,500.00 23,052.00
Southampton 32,500.00 33,189.39
Southend-on-Sea 32,500.00 40,515.00
Southwark 32,500.00 34,360.00
St. Helens 32,500.00 30,968.00
Staffordshire 32,500.00 34,085.00
Stockport 32,500.00 34,713.00
Stockton-on-Tees 32,500.00 35,342.00
Stoke-on-Trent 32,500.00 35,677.67
Suffolk 32,500.00 38,950.89
Sunderland 32,500.00 30,181.00
Surrey 32,500.00 54,612.00
Sutton 32,500.00 32,752.00
Swindon 32,500.00 32,503.00
Tameside 32,500.00 36,302.00
Telford and the Wrekin 32,500.00 32,500.00
Thurrock 32,500.00 34,860.00
Torbay 32,500.00 32,613.00
Tower Hamlets 32,500.00 42,513.71
Trafford 32,500.00 32,934.00
Wakefield 32,500.00 33,535.00
Walsall 32,500.00 32,185.00
Waltham Forest 32,500.00 47,143.00
Wandsworth 32,500.00 50,533.00
Warrington 32,500.00 34,160.00
Warwickshire 32,500.00 32,178.06
West Berkshire 32,500.00 34,500.00
West Sussex 32,500.00 33,210.00
Westminster 32,500.00 28,139.00
Wigan 32,500.00 32,841.00
Wiltshire 32,500.00 33,783.00
Windsor and Maidenhead 32,500.00 34,324.00
Wirral 32,500.00 35,055.00
Wokingham 32,500.00 34,954.00
Wolverhampton 32,500.00 20,200.00
Worcestershire 32,500.00 32,500.00
York 32,500.00 32,508.00

Quality Protects—1999–2000
£
Grant allocation Expenditure incurred
Barking and Dagenham 378,953.00 379,302.00
Barnet 540,110.00 504,748.00
Barnsley 278,096.00 278,096.00
Bath and North East Somerset 154,973.00 184,663.00
Bedfordshire 356,687.00 366,929.00
Bexley 280,521.00 291,000.00
Birmingham 2,591,786.00 2,898,652.28
Blackburn with Darwen 273,182.00 262,138.00
Blackpool 236,835.00 238,381.00
Bolton 396,975.00 397,000.00
Bournemouth 229,845.00 231,331.00
Bracknell Forest 117,522.00 132,308.00
Bradford 884,401.00 900,285.62

Quality Protects—1999–2000
£
Grant allocation Expenditure incurred
Brent 976,211.00 985,653.00
Brighton and Hove 429,491.00 429,470.00
Bristol 713,666.00 719,140.39
Bromley 358,039.00 358,851.00
Buckinghamshire 387,837.00 388,279.00
Bury 219,510.00 232,419.00
Calderdale 259,611.00 276,897.00
Cambridgeshire 455,000.00 455,000.00
Camden 876,424.00 879,962.00
Cheshire 592,040.00 592,040.00
City of London 16,286.00 11,130.00
Cornwall 488,072.00 488,000.00
Coventry 541,941.00 542,000.00
Croydon 717,253.00 812,613.00
Cumbria 444,301.00 464,002.00
Darlington 132,436.00 140,870.00
Derby 386,441.00 386,838.00
Derbyshire 604,045.00 735,009.00
Devon 624,424.00 624,423.00
Doncaster 395,605.00 408,032.91
Dorset 302,431.00 302,777.00
Dudley 324,165.00 350,641.00
Durham 599,079.00 413,704.00
Ealing 838,296.00 939,685.00
East Riding of Yorkshire 215,630.00 202,183.00
East Sussex 540,272.00 540,360.00
Enfield 522,279.00 522,718.00
Essex 1,268,060.00 1,281,958.00
Gateshead 297,693.00 305,222.00
Gloucestershire 523,690.00 422,352.00
Greenwich 760,609.00 1,111,456.00
Hackney 1,227,189.00 1,187,987.47
Halton 226,711.00 226,711.00
Hammersmith and Fulham 698,515.00 713,096.63
Hampshire 1,075,112.00 1,399,134.00
Haringey 987,351.00 935,986.00
Harrow 305,314.00 313,712.00
Hartlepool 147,244.00 147,261.00
Havering 252,220.00 253,926.50
Herefordshire 153,445.00 154,712.08
Hertfordshire 1,066,840.00 1,096,700.00
Hillingdon 380,758.00 459,984.00
Hounslow 514,769.00 529,483.00
Isle of Wight 150,553.00 146,269.00
Isles of Scilly 12,261.00 13,160.00
Islington 1,023,002.00 1,043,385.00
Kensington and Chelsea 560,122.00 560,122.00
Kent 1,458,706.00 1,458,706.00
Kingston upon Hull 499,512.00 502,223.00
Kingston upon Thames 174,194.00 174,194.00
Kirklees 547,178.00 551,729.00
Knowsley 422,471.00 432,643.00
Lambeth 1,573,817.00 1,590,658.00
Lancashire 1,365,835.00 1,474,651.00
Leeds 1,048,900.00 1,276,450.00
Leicester City 686,801.00 688,298.00
Leicestershire 411,678.00 461,898.00
Lewisham 1,111,262.00 1,111,262.00
Lincolnshire 565,509.00 579,047.00
Liverpool 1,149,943.00 1,150,061.00
Luton 359,059.00 380,737.35
Manchester 1,394,058.00 1,394,058.00
Medway 299,593.00 300,103.00
Merton 323,737.00 324,354.00
Middlesbrough 313,474.00 317,586.00
Milton Keynes 293,645.00 186,105.82
Newcastle upon Tyne 539,359.00 793,068.00
Newham 1,070,696.00 1,072,986.00
Norfolk 722,580.00 760,075.72
North East Lincolnshire 224,251.00 225,105.00

Quality Protects—1999–2000
£
Grant allocation Expenditure incurred
North Lincolnshire 158,955.00 166,489.81
North Somerset 151,981.00 158,211.00
North Tyneside 278,868.00 278,868.00
North Yorkshire 438,571.00 439,000.00
Northamptonshire 659,698.00 660,000.00
Northumberland 296,640.00 262,759.00
Nottingham 701,493.00 703,983.00
Nottinghamshire 712,558.00 713,150.00
Oldham 374,513.00 375,010.00
Oxfordshire 586,043.00 544,518.94
Peterborough 246,202.00 248,789.00
Plymouth 438,917.00 436,756.00
Poole 140,267.00 141,318.00
Portsmouth 345,827.00 345,827.00
Reading 254,616.00 249,277.00
Redbridge 375,752.00 258,973.00
Redcar and Cleveland 222,123.00 223,894.91
Richmond upon Thames 199,650.00 192,684.00
Rochdale 371,504.00 391,712.00
Rotherham 327,544.00 346,518.00
Rutland 32,573.00 33,178.00
Salford 425,589.00 417,187.00
Sandwell 544;269.00 544,035.00
Sefton 411,861.00 394,443.00
Sheffield 761,467.00 811,922.00
Shropshire 209,125.00 209,125.00
Slough 250,111.00 250,168.00
Solihull 223,969.00 212,642.00
Somerset 436,982.00 446,236.00
South Gloucestershire 178,281.00 186,677.00
South Tyneside 275,020.00 275,020.00
Southampton 411,525.00 439,783.00
Southend-on-Sea 259,093.00 260,576.00
Southwark 1,269,129.00 1,244,778.00
St. Helens 233,469.00 244,736.00
Staffordshire 674,749.00 695,807.00
Stockport 294,530.00 294,530.00
Stockton-on-Tees 267,578.00 267,578.00
Stoke-on-Trent 347,894.00 357,048.00
Suffolk 602,421.00 614,941.00
Sunderland 497,704.00 588,099.00
Surrey 868,583.00 956,223.00
Sutton 249,730.00 249,730.00
Swindon 201,610.00 200,214.00
Tameside 314,349.00 319,189.00
Telford and the Wrekin 206,945.00 208,529.02
Thurrock 194,469.00 196,586.84
Torbay 174,772.00 174,648.00
Tower Hamlets 1,034,484.00 1,008,313.81
Trafford 289,088.00 289,088.00
Wakefield 367,119.00 367,119.00
Walsall 462,560.00 462,560.00
Waltham Forest 669,924.00 770,139.00
Wandsworth 866,095.00 1,115,666.00
Warrington 194,551.00 250,672.65
Warwickshire 426,028.00 475,478.00
West Berkshire 112,417.00 116,624.00
West Sussex 676,043.00 737,735.00
Westminster 755,373.00 752,691.00
Wigan 360,316.00 337,962.00
Wiltshire 357,641.00 362,613.00
Windsor and Maidenhead 123,163.00 130,990.00
Wirral 542,273.00 716,388.00
Wokingham 85,864.00 85,864.00
Wolverhampton 470,718.00 510,181.00
Worcestershire 493,543.00 493,543.00
York 164,894.00 165,715.00

Quality Protects—2000–01
£
Grant allocation Expenditure incurred
Barking and Dagenham 608,000.00 611,455.00
Barnet 861,000.00 893,098.00
Barnsley 440,000.00 440,000.00
Bath and North East Somerset 243,000.00 280,140.00
Bedfordshire 560,000.00 560,990.02
Bexley 443,000.00 453,000.00
Birmingham 4,097,000.00 5,218,092.00
Blackburn with Darwen 430,000.00 430,000.00
Blackpool 379,000.00 385,893.00
Bolton 625,000.00 643,729.00
Bournemouth 365,000.00 367,974.00
Bracknell Forest 182,000.00 181,975.00
Bradford 1,398,000.00 1,433,280.00
Brent 1,540,000.00 1,915,281.00
Brighton and Hove 684,979.00 693,342.00
Bristol 1,134,000.00 1,260,884.00
Bromley 563,000.00 563,313.00
Buckinghamshire 609,000.00 609,033.00
Bury 351,000.00 364,262.00
Calderdale 410,000.00 417,905.00
Cambridgeshire 718,000.00 766,472.00
Camden 1,404,000.00 1,406,438.00
Cheshire 930,000.00 950,552.00
City of London 26,000.00 29,143.17
Cornwall 764,000.00 942,122.00
Coventry 853,000.00 972,269.00
Croydon 1,140,000.00 1,147,234.00
Cumbria 706,000.00 922,012.00
Darlington 212,000.00 219,974.00
Derby 612,000.00 612,937.00
Derbyshire 957,000.00 1,673,176.00
Devon 986,000.00 985,999.00
Doncaster 618,000.00 623,050.55
Dorset 479,000.00 492,973.00
Dudley 507,000.00 507,000.00
Durham 951,000.00 1,057,617.00
Ealing 1,334,000.00 1,334,000.00
East Riding of Yorkshire 344,000.00 333,481.00
East Sussex 857,000.00 864,520.00
Enfield 822,000.00 822,650.00
Essex 1,990,000.00 2,116,430.00
Gateshead 470,000.00 496,699.00
Gloucestershire 821,000.00 821,000.00
Greenwich 1,211,000.00 1,211,000.00
Hackney 1,954,000.00 1,955,166.00
Halton 357,000.00 359,638.00
Hammersmith and Fulham 1,124,000.00 1,142,347.00
Hampshire 1,687,000.00 2,042,846.49
Haringey 1,572,000.00 1,582,662.00
Harrow 485,000.00 486,752.00
Hartlepool 234,000.00 235,458.00
Havering 395,000.00 396,171.90
Herefordshire 244,000.00 247.263.23
Hertfordshire 1,674,000.00 1,676,854.00
Hillingdon 605,000.00 646,175.00
Hounslow 815,000.00 815,000.00
Isle of Wight 241,000.00 244,593.00
Isles of Scilly 14,000.00 34,838.00
Islington 1,648,000.00 1,647,993.00
Kensington and Chelsea 916,000.00 916,000.00
Kent 2,302,000.00 2,764,100.00
Kingston upon Hull 795,000.00 796,810.00
Kingston upon Thames 277,000.00 277,000.00
Kirklees 861,000.00 901,324.26
Knowsley 669,000.00 699,825.00
Lambeth 2,525,000.00 2,601,897.00
Lancashire 2,167,000.00 2,642,885.00
Leeds 1,661,000.00 1,679,286.00
Leicester City 1,082,000.00 1,082,000.00
Leicestershire 646,000.00 710,468.00

Quality Protects—2000–01
£
Grant allocation Expenditure incurred
Lewisham 1,768,000.00 1,768,000.00
Lincolnshire 890,000.00 930,627.00
Liverpool 1,834,000.00 1,914,036.00
Luton,, 561,000.00 567,250.00
Manchester 2,221,000.00 2,221,000.00
Medway 470,000.00 470,000.00
Merton 512,000.00 502,405.00
Middlesbrough 495,000.00 502,598.00
Milton Keynes 457,000.00 456,173.42
Newcastle upon Tyne., 854,000.00 996,393.06
Newham 1,701,000.00 1,843,266.00
Norfolk 1,149,000.00 1,180,423.57
North East Lincolnshire 356,000.00 355,976.00
North Lincolnshire 250,000.00 251,764.09
North Somerset 238,000.00 238,981.00
North Tyneside 443,000.00 443,000.00
North Yorkshire 700,000.00 707,999.00
Northamptonshire 1,035,000.00 1,035,000.00
Northumberland 467,000.00 467,220.00
Nottingham 1,108,000.00 1,108,000.00
Nottinghamshire 1,128,000.00 2,901,208.00
Oldham 588,000.00 601,020.00
Oxfordshire 925,000.00 939,298.21
Peterborough 387,000.00 388,193.00
Plymouth 694,179.00 694,179.00
Poole 218,000.00 218,000.00
Portsmouth 544,000.00 592,575.00
Reading 403,000.00 417,917.00
Redbridge 593,000.00 758,776.00
Redcar and Cleveland 346,000.00 346,247.50
Richmond upon Thames 319,000.00 319,838.00
Rochdale 589,000.00 588,976.00
Rotherham 512,000.00 512,294.00
Rutland 45,000.00 45,723.00
Salford 669,000.00 680,518.00
Sandwell 849,000.00 849,000.00
Sefton 654,000.00 670,780.00
Sheffield 1,207,000.00 1,225,668.00
Shropshire 328,000.00 333,060.00
Slough 389,000.00 389,000.00
Solihull 350,000.00 347,096.00
Somerset 688,000.00 759,562.00
South Gloucestershire 278,000.00 303,963.00
South Tyneside 435,000.00 435,000.00
Southampton 651,000.00 663,079.00
Southend-on-Sea 411,000.00 412,465.00
Southwark 2,025,000.00 2,066,349.00
St. Helens 369,000.00 391,049.00
Staffordshire 1,059,000.00 1,189,904.00
Stockport 467,000.00 524,336.00
Stockton-on-Tees 423,000.00 469,565.00
Stoke-on-Trent 555,000.00 560,646.83
Suffolk 951,000.00 961,689.00
Sunderland 779,000.00 862,870.00
Surrey 1,358,000.00 1,371,619.00
Sutton 392,000.00 392,000.00
Swindon 319,045.00 374,704.00
Tameside 498,000.00 602,510.00
Telford and the Wrekin 329,000.00 329,023.00
Thurrock 309,000.00 307,426.09
Torbay 278,000.00 282,249.00
Tower Hamlets 1,633,000.00 1,631,601.00
Trafford 455,000.00 473,152.00
Wakefield 581,000.00 581,304.00
Walsall 726,000.00 734,203.00
Waltham Forest 1,056,000.00 1,093,252.00
Wandsworth 1,374,000.00 1,783,815.00
Warrington 306,000.00 377,608.84
Warwickshire 669,000.00 727,910.00
West Berkshire 176,000.00 176,003.00

Quality Protects-2000–01
£
Grant allocation Expenditure incurred
West Sussex 1,062,000.00 1,501,822.00
Westminster 1,234,000.00 1,237,813.00
Wigan 566,000.00 612,741.00
Wiltshire 564,000.00 610,375.00
Windsor and Maidenhead 193,000.00 209,907.00
Wirral 858,000.00 857,313.67
Wokingham 133,000.00 137,081.00
Wolverhampton 737,000.00 845,092.00
Worcestershire 779,000.00 779,000.00
York 261,000.00 267,779.00

Quality Protects—2001–02
£
Grant allocation
Barking and Dagenham 1,632,988.00
Barnet 2,057,315.00
Barnsley 1,142,954.00
Bath and North East Somerset 593,912.00
Bedfordshire 1,430,673.00
Bexley 1,198,185.00
Birmingham 9,655,311.00
Blackburn with Darwen 1,065,518.00
Blackpool 978,614.00
Bolton 1,535,893.00
Bournemouth 904,237.00
Bracknell Forest 455,457.00
Bradford 3,363,661.00
Brent 3,430,645.00
Brighton and Hove 1,677,490.00
Bristol 2,777,929.00
Bromley 1,470,905.00
Buckinghamshire 1,502,091.00
Bury 907,997.00
Calderdale 1,025,748.00
Cambridgeshire 1,761,439.00
Camden 3,356,252.00
Cheshire 2,304,651.00
City of London 82,563.00
Cornwall 1,917,024.00
Coventry 2,069,504.00
Croydon 2,767,307.00
Cumbria 1,781,595.00
Darlington 514,503.00
Derby 1,521,252.00
Derbyshire 2,475,919.00
Devon 2,470,550.00
Doncaster 1,566,459.00
Dorset 1,190,383.00
Dudley 1,295,132.00
Durham 2,426,324.00
Ealing 3,215,189.00
East Riding of Yorkshire 863,087.00
East Sussex 2,169,433.00
Enfield 2,087,477.00
Essex 5,023,904.00
Gateshead 1,226,995.00
Gloucestershire 2,043,753.00
Greenwich 3,017,843.00
Hackney 4,503,350.00
Halton 889,886.00
Hammersmith and Fulham 2,864,562.00
Hampshire 4,180,823.00
Haringey 3,705,070.00
Harrow 1,156,863.00
Hartlepool 580,453.00
Havering 1,008,188.00

Quality Protects—2001–02
£
Grant allocation
Herefordshire 605,137.00
Hertfordshire 4,090,242.00
Hillingdon 1,609,311.00
Hounslow 1,943,464.00
Isle of Wight 631,612.00
Isles of Scilly 16,703.00
Islington 3,992,342.00
Kensington and Chelsea 2,379,035.00
Kent 5,974,305.00
Kingston upon Hull 1,980,321.00
Kingston upon Thames 763,996.00
Kirklees 2,061,623.00
Knowsley 1,664,574.00
Lambeth 6,005,303.00
Lancashire 5,433,080.00
Leeds 4,152,471.00
Leicester City 2,475,945.00
Leicestershire 1,605,199.00
Lewisham 4,196,109.00
Lincolnshire 2,162,767.00
Liverpool 4,573,026.00
Luton 1,356,539.00
Manchester 5,280,917.00
Medway 1,221,478.00
Merton 1,293,921.00
Middlesbrough 1,190,012.00
Milton Keynes 1,178,019.00
Newcastle upon Tyne 2,154,096.00
Newham 3,931,866.00
Norfolk 2,924,401.00
North East Lincolnshire 902,525.00
North Lincolnshire 644,589.00
North Somerset 611,398.00
North Tyneside 1,163,286.00
North Yorkshire 1,702,211.00
Northamptonshire 2,624,204.00
Northumberland. 1,232,552.00
Nottingham 2,657,610.00
Nottinghamshire 2,768,099.00
Oldham 1,479,374.00
Oxfordshire 2,225,509.00
Peterborough 997,387.00
Plymouth 1,679,210.00
Poole 574,483.00
Portsmouth 1,342,536.00
Reading 980,588.00
Redbridge 1,427,212.00
Redcar and Cleveland 833,365.00
Richmond upon Thames 799,982.00
Rochdale 1,450,451.00
Rotherham 1,315,989.00
Rutland 93,367.00
Salford 1,721,616.00
Sandwell 2,117,629.00
Sefton 1,629,565.00
Sheffield 2,998,839.00
Shropshire 805,546.00
Slough 945,849.00
Solihull 905,895.00
Somerset 1,721,509.00
South Gloucestershire 738,464.00
South Tyneside 1,130,676.00
Southampton 1,598,346.00
Southend-on-Sea 1,098,103.00
Southwark 5,071,690.00
St. Helens 968,376.00
Staffordshire 2,680,547.00
Stockport 1,206,047.00
Stockton-on-Tees 1,048,730.00
Stoke-on-Trent 1,501,346.00

Quality Protects—2001–02
£
Grant allocation
Suffolk 2,318,876.00
Sunderland 1,924,230.00
Surrey 3,409,520.00
Sutton 978,215.00
Swindon 826,353.00
Tameside 1,253,245.00
Telford and the Wrekin 836,362.00
Thurrock 812,839.00
Torbay 740,053.00
Tower Hamlets 3,937,273.00
Trafford 1,085,639.00
Wakefield 1,564,260.00
Walsall 1,710,437.00
Waltham Forest 2,548,677.00
Wandsworth 3,354,460.00
Warrington 766,475.00
Warwickshire 1,699,102.00
West Berkshire 412,229.00
West Sussex 2,681,810.00
Westminster 3,201,093.00
Wigan 1,437,294.00
Wiltshire. 1,394,412.00
Windsor and Maidenhead 494,625.00
Wirral 2,141,008.00
Wokingham 332,082.00
Wolverhampton 1,815,910.00
Worcestershire 1,975,395.00
York 630,353.00

Note:

The figures for expenditure for each local authority for the years 1998–99 and 1999–2000 are wholly based on audit forms provided by the authority's chief finance officer and an auditor appointed by the Audit Commission. The figures for 2000–01 include a small number of figures from pre-audit certificates and may therefore be subject to change.

Mr. Burstow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what arrangements(a) his Department and (b) local authorities have made to publicise the reporting and referral system established in line with the quality protects programme under LAC(98)28 and subsequent circulars; [39310]

(2) how many local authorities (a) have full compliant policies and procedures, (b) have draft policies and procedures and (c) are not compliant with the protection of children guidance, quality protects programme under LAC(98)28 and subsequent circulars. [39309]

Jacqui Smith

[holding answer 4 March 2002]: Local Authority Circular (98)28 gave councils and their partners details of" the quality protects programme. It explained that the Department would be publishing further guidance covering issues such as reporting and referral systems and child protection procedures.

The Department published the "Framework for Assessment of Children in Need and their Families" in April 2000. It has undertaken an extensive programme of dissemination at local, regional and national levels. The quality protects regional development workers have played a key role in ensuring agencies know about and are implementing the assessment framework. The Department has worked with local councils and consulted software suppliers to develop and publish "Core Information Requirements" for children's social services to help improve councils' capability in managing information.

The Department held a series of regional roadshows in the autumn of 1999 on the final draft version of the "Working Together to Safeguard Children" guidance, following which 100,000 copies of the revised guidance were distributed to child protection professionals through the area child protection committee network. The social services inspectorate is currently participating, together with other statutory inspectorates, in a series of themed inspections looking at the effectiveness of safeguards for children across all relevant statutory agencies.

Developments and best practice under quality protects are publicised in a number of ways, including the quality protects newsletter and website www.doh.gov.uk/qualityprotects.

Local authorities' progress in implementing quality protects is monitored through a number of mechanisms, including inspections, position statements and annual management action plans. In their autumn position statements, 83 per cent. of councils stated that they had implemented the assessment framework by 30 September 2001. A further 13 per cent. expect to have done so by 1 April 2002 at the latest. The remaining six authorities expect to implement during 2002–03.

Local authorities submitted their fourth quality protects management action plans in January 2002. These set out their progress in and plans for delivering the quality protects programme. The social services inspectorate is currently assessing these plans. We will be publishing an overview report of the plans and their evaluation later in the year. Copies of the national overview reports for the previous three years' management action plans are available in the Library.