To ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the total Department of Health budget for smoking and drug addiction among children in each of the last five years. [3764]
The tables show the amounts spent by the Health Education Authority, on behalf of the Department of Health, on teenage anti-smoking programmes over the last five years, funding provided to health authorities for drug misuse services and expenditure on drug and solvent publicity for all age ranges. Activities relating to smoking and drug addiction among children are also included within other programmes undertaken by the Department of Health, the Health Education Authority and health authorities but specific costings are not available.
Funding for HEA's teenage smoking programme
| |
Financial year
| Amount spent on teenage smoking work £
|
| 1991–92 | £1,746,000 |
| 1992–93 | 752,000 |
| 1993–94 | 864,000 |
| 1994–95 | 863,000 |
| 1995–96 | 880,000 |
Funding for drug misuse services
| |
Financial year
| Funding to health authorities to provide treatment services for drug misusers £ Million
|
| 1991–92 | 16.999 |
| 1992–93 | 20.043 |
| 1993–94 | 24.371 |
| 1994–95 | 25 .498 |
| 1995–96 | 26.748 |
In addition, £1 million has been provided in 1995–96 specifically to develop services for young people at risk from drug misuse.
Drug and solvent publicity
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Year
| £
|
| 1991–92 | 3,924,413 |
| 1992–93 | 4,965,023 |
| 1993–94 | 5,296,284 |
Notifications of meningitis and meningococcal menningitis in West Yorkshire, by local authority districts, 1990–94
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1990
| 1991
| 1992
| 1993
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11994
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All meningitis
| Meningococcal
| All menigitis
| Meningococcal
| All meningitis
| Menigococcal
| All meningitis
| Menigococcal
| All meningitis
| Menigococcal
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| Bradford | 35 | 13 | 74 | 18 | 31 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 16 | 5 |
| Calderdale | 10 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
| Kirkless | 20 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 19 | 10 | 20 | 11 |
| Leeds | 43 | 12 | 55 | 9 | 41 | 12 | 24 | 11 | 30 | 16 |
| Wakefield | 29 | 7 | 30 | 8 | 18 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 13 | 3 |
11994 figures are provisional. Information is not available at district health authority level. | ||||||||||