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Health Services: Merseyside

Volume 508: debated on Monday 22 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been spent on the care and support of people with learning difficulties on Merseyside in each year since 2005. (322634)

The information requested is not available in the format required. However, information on programme budgeting estimated expenditure on Merseyside primary care trusts’ (PCT) own populations for learning disabilities is shown in the following table:

Estimated expenditure on own population on learning disabilities

£000

PCT name

2004-5

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

Halton and St. Helens PCT

7,157

9,042

10,777

16,066

17,103

Knowsley PCT

6,219

7,405

1,892

13,137

4,832

Liverpool PCT

33,158

20,629

24,011

24,552

26,043

Sefton PCT

5,528

10,582

7,723

9,111

12,069

Wirral PCT

14,415

15,849

11,724

18,038

21,189

Notes:

1. In order to improve data quality, continual refinements have been made to the programme budgeting data calculation methodology since the first collection in 2003-04. The underlying data which support programme budgeting data are also subject to yearly changes. Caution is therefore advised when using programme budgeting data to draw conclusions on changes in PCT spending patterns between years.

2. Figures include expenditure across all sectors. Disease specific expenditure do not include expenditure on prevention, or general practitioner expenditure, but do include prescribing expenditure.

Source:

Annual PCT programme budgeting financial returns