asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list total Government expenditure in real terms and in cash terms on provision for the elderly in each of the last 10 years.

[pursuant to her reply,2 February, 1987 c. 550.]: I regret that it is not possible to identify fully, and on a consistent basis, all expenditure on elderly people.Social security expenditure in Great Britain on benefits payable only to elderly people, in cash and in real terms, for each year between 1976–77 and 1985–86 was as follows :

Great Britain (£ million)
	Cash	Real terms at 1984–85prices1
1976–77	6,480	14,530
1977–78	7,660	15,090
1978–79	8,740	15,550
1979–80	10,130	15,420
1980–81	12,140	15,580
1981–82	14,330	16,750
1982–83	16,120	17,570
1983–84	17,670	18,430
1984–85	18,810	18,810
1985–86	20,470	19,270
1 Adjusted in line with the GDP deflator at market prices.

These figures do not include expenditure on benefits paid to elderly people for reasons other than of age as these cannot be identified separately. For example, the figures do not include attendance allowances paid to elderly people because of disability.It is estimated that some 43 per cent. of total revenue expenditure on health and personal social services is currently spent on people aged 65 and over, but I regret that similar estimates are not available for the whole period requested. However estimates of expenditure on hospital and community health services and on personal social services used mainly by elderly people are available from the Department's programme budget analysis, details of which are submitted annually to the Select Committee on Social Services and are published by the Committee in minutes of evidence associated with its reports on public expenditure on the social services, the latest being HC 387-II published in July 1986. Estimates for current and capital expenditure, in cash and in real terms, on these services are given below for each year between 1975–76 and 1984–85, the latest year for which these estimates are available.

England
Estimated net expenditure on hospital and community health services used mainly by elderly people
£ million
	Current		Capital
	Cash	Real terms at 1984–85prices1	Cash	Real terms at 1984–85prices1
1975–76	350	888	33	83
1976–77	407	914	29	65
1977–78	462	909	23	45
1978–79	531	945	27	49
1979–80	640	975	25	37
1980–81	858	1,101	33	42
1981–82	948	1,108	41	47
1982–83	1,017	1,109	34	37
1983–84	1,073	1,120	38	40
1984–85	1,155	1,155	42	42

England
Estimated net expenditure (including Joint Finance) on personal social services used mainly by elderly people
£ million
	Current		Capital
	Cash	Real terms at 1984–85prices1	Cash	Real terms at 1984–85prices1
1975–76	260	661	n/a	n/a
1976–77	300	673	30	68
1977–78	333	656	19	37
1978–79	383	680	25	44
1979–80	471	717	34	52
1980–81	570	732	45	58
1981–82	620	725	41	47
1982–83	678	739	40	43
1983–84	742	774	40	41
1984–853	796	796	42	42

The above estimates do not cover the totality of health and personal social services expenditure on elderly people. They do not for example reflect the considerable use which elderly people make of the acute services, nor the expenditure on services for elderly mentally infirm people, nor do they include expenditure on family practitioner services, and on social work and administration relating to elderly people.Further expenditure arising through the care in the community pilot projects and on other centrally funded initiatives on elderly people is given below.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list total Government expenditure in real terms and in cash terms on provision for the mentally handicapped in each of the last 10 years.

[pursuant to her reply, 2 February 1987, c. 550]: I regret that total expenditure on provision for mentally handicapped people cannot be identified fully. Within the scope of the responsibilities of the Department the position is as follows. Estimates of expenditure on hospital and some community health services, and on local authority residential and day care services are available from the Department's programme budget analysis, details of which are submitted annually to the Select Committee on Social Services and are published by the Committee in minutes of evidence associated with its reports on Public Expenditure on the Social Services, the latest being HC 387-II published in July 1986. Figures on actual spending on centrally funded initiatives for mentally handicapped people are collected centrally. It is not possible however to identify the use mentally handicapped people make of the family practitioner services and of the other health and personal social services, nor to separate out social security payments made to mentally handicapped people.Estimates of current and capital expenditure in England on hospital and community health services and local authority services for mentally handicapped people, in cash and in real terms, are given below for each year between 1975–76 and 1984–85, the latest year for which these estimates are available.

England
Hospital and Community Health Services Net expenditure
£ million
	Current		Capital
	Cash	Real terms at 1984–85 prices1	Cash	Real terms at 1984–85 prices1
1975–76	162	412	13	32
1976–77	181	407	13	30
1977–78	205	404	9	18
1978–79	229	407	9	16
1979–80	275	419	14	21
1980–81	355	455	19	25
1981–82	389	455	18	21
1982–83	419	456	25	27
1983–84	437	456	24	25
1984–85	462	462	32	32