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Mr. Evans
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the budget for social services in Lancashire was in each year since 1992. [134902]
Miss Melanie Johnson
The table shows the personal social services (PSS) budget figures for Lancashire county council, for each year since 1992–93. The figures include children's services.
| Social services budgets—Lancashire county council—1992–93 to 2003–04 | |
| £ million | |
| PSS budget | |
| 1992–93 | 132,406 |
| 1993–94 | 156,288 |
| 1994–95 | 182,308 |
| 1995–96 | 200,193 |
| 1996–97 | 216,873 |
| 1997–98 | 231,046 |
| 1998–99 | 191,062 |
| 1999–2000 | 199,798 |
| 2000–01 | 216,811 |
| 2001–02 | 231,741 |
| 2002–03 | 262,069 |
| 2003–04 | 289,932 |