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Disabled: Direct Payments

Volume 456: debated on Wednesday 7 February 2007

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Mr. Hunt

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many people were in receipt of direct payments in each of the last five years; (119465)

(2) how much was spent in the form of direct payments to people with disabilities in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority.

Mr. Ivan Lewis

The number of adults aged 18 and over in receipt of direct payments from councils with social services responsibilities in England is given in the following table for the years 2001-02 to 2005-06.

The number of clients in receipt of direct payments 2001-02 to 2005-06, England

Number of clients in receipt of direct payments

Rounded numbers1

2001-02

6,000

2002-03

10,000

2003-04

15,000

2004-05

24,000

2005-062

37,000

Notes:1 Data have been rounded to the nearest 1,000 2 Provisional data. Source: Information Centre, RAP proforma P2f.

Tables showing the amount spent in the form of direct payments to disabled people in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority, have been placed in the Library.