HC Deb 16 December 2003 vol 415 cc875-6W
Mr. Blizzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he will fund the service improvements for adults with learning disabilities set out in the White Paper, Valuing People. [143503]

Dr. Ladyman

"Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century" (Cm 5086), announced the creation of two new funds to support its priorities, the Implementation Support Fund from April 2001 and the Learning Disability Development Fund from April 2002. Our annual report on learning disability, Making Change Happen (HC 514), published in April 2003, announced that the Support Fund would continue until March 2006; the Development Fund will also continue until March 2006.

In addition, over £3 billion a year is spent on health and social care provision for people with learning disabilities. People with learning disabilities also use mainstream health and social care services and benefit from increased expenditure on those services.

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