§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding his Department(a) has made available in each year since 1996–97 and (b) will make available in each year from 2004–05 to 2007–08 to tackle anomalies of the old funding system for long-term care. [164615]
§ Dr. LadymanThe NHS Plan announced additional resources, rising to £360 million a year by 2003–04, to tackle anomalies in the system of funding for long term264W care. This was disseminated via the Preserved Rights Grant, the Residential Allowance Grant, the Deferred Payments Grant and new funding for National Health Service-funded nursing care. There has also been and continues to be extra investment in new services such as intermediate care and extra care housing.
Funding was made available in 2003 to strategic health authorities o cover the estimated costs of recompense claims for patients inappropriately denied fully funded NHS continuing care since 1996. The Department does not routinely publish details of estimated costs of a specific service.