§ Ms BuckTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the transfers into and out of formula spending share for 2004–05, and grants which are due to cease at the end of 2003–04; and whether his Department plans consequently to adjust the baseline calculation for floors and ceilings. [127165]
§ Mr. RaynsfordI have been asked to reply.
The Secretary of State for Health intends to end three special grants in 2003–04: Deferred Payments (£40 million), Performance Fund (£96 million) and Care Direct (£2.2 million). No other transfers are planned at this stage, although the situation will not be finalised until the provisional local government financial settlement. In each case, the Government are considering whether to adjust authorities' baselines for Formula Grant and for Formula Spending Shares.