To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what proportion of the funding made available to local authorities for respite care for carers in the recent New Deal for Carers statement will be allocated to Peterborough City Council; and if she will make a statement; (123830)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to her written statement of 21 February 2007, Official Report, column 49WS, on the New Deal for Carers, how much of the additional £25 million available to local authorities in England for the provision of short term home-based respite care she expects to be allocated to Oxfordshire County Council. (124263)

There were 670 carers who received an assessment or a review in Peterborough council during the year 2005-06, of which 200 carers received a break and or carers specific services.

In 2007-08 Peterborough city council will receive £1.959 million for carers, of which £233,000 will support the provision of emergency respite care.

During the same period Oxfordshire county council will receive £0.686 million for carers, of which £82,000 will support the provision of emergency respite care.

A table detailing the amounts each council will be allocated has been placed in the Library.