Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service

Miss McIntosh
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the 2007-08 Budget is for the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service; and what the budget was in each of the last five years.

Mr. Dhanda
I refer the hon. Member to the answer that I gave her on 19 April 2007, Official Report, column 719W. The information requested in respect of 2003-04 and 2002-03 is in the table.

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|                                       |£                                                                                                |
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|2003-04                                |95,000,000 (on a resource basis, plus 2,500,000 provision for transition to resource accounting)1|
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|2002-03                                |84,500,000 (on a cash basis)1                                                                    |
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|1 Includes the budget for CAFCASS Cymru|                                                                                                 |
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