To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each of the last five years the amount his Department paid to each local authority in respect of special transitional grant for community care and the percentage change from one year to the next. [7435]

The information requested has been placed in the Library. There is no direct link between one year's allocation of special transitional grant and the next for the following reasons:

the effect of Local Authorities reorganisation (the number of new unitary authorities that have been created and the subsequent effect on boundaries); and

each year's STG is incorporated into the Personal Social Services Standard Spending Assessments for the following year, so that year's allocation is in addition to, and not a replacement for the previous allocation.

A table showing a better overview of community care funding has also been placed in the Library as has an additional table which shows total resources provided for local authority community care responsibilities, together with the annual percentage change.