Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the adult social care budget was for (a) England and (b) Shropshire in each year since 2002-03. (147706)

Information on the adult social care budget is not available. Data for the combined social care budget for both children and adults are shown in the following table.

*Budgeted social services expenditure for Shropshire and England between 2002-03 and 2007-08*
£000
	Shropshire	England
2002-03	57,149	12,618,921
2003-04	69,361	14,102,597
2004-05	69,830	15,585,716
2005-06	75,181	16,874,884
2006-07	77,194	17,753,469
2007-08	83,616	18,476,285

Volume 462: debated on Thursday 12 July 2007