Communities and Local Government provide local authorities with administration grant as a contribution towards the costs of managing the programme at a local level but do not require authorities to provide details of actual expenditure on staffing, administration or publicity for the Supporting People programme.
It is possible that some local authorities do not record these sorts of expenditure for their Supporting People grants specifically. Communities and Local Government would not be able to provide this information without a disproportionate amount of effort, and for those local authorities who do not record this type of expenditure even a disproportionate amount of effort would not yield any results.
The information requested is as follows:
Financial year: 2003-041 2004-052 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Annual spend (£) 1,814,096,410 1,804,997,200 1,681,607,275 1,642,961,644 1,627,573,423 1,640,497,680 Household unit available 1,232,889 927,774 1,038,595 1,064,178 1,068,994 1,083,406
The household unit figures provided represent a snapshot of the capacity of Supporting People services (measured in households) at a particular point in time; in this instance as at 31 March each year, to correspond with the collection of spend data. It should be noted that household unit information is not representative of the number of households who have actually received support during the quarter or year.