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Community Care: Finance

Volume 471: debated on Tuesday 29 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much funding has been available for community care grants nationally in each year since 1997. (183138)

The information is in the following table.

Financial year

Community Care Grant budget in Great Britain (£ million)

1997-98

97

1998-99

98

1999-2000

98

2000-01

100

2001-02

103

2002-03

108

2003-04

118

2004-05

128

2005-06

138

2006-07

141

2007-08

141

Note:

There is also a small contingency reserve (which has varied between £0.5 million and £2 million) which is available to cover unforeseen spending, for example, on flooding.

Source:

Annual reports on the Social Fund by the Secretary of State for Social Security/Work and Pensions.