NHS: Complaints

David Taylor
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding his Department has provided to the Carers Federation to administer the Independent Complaints Advocacy Service in the East Midlands in each year since the service was launched in September 2003.

Phil Hope
The Department’s current contract with The Carers Federation started in April 2006. A yearly breakdown of funding from the Department to the Carers Federation to administer the independent complaints advocacy service in the East Midlands from September 2003 is as follows:

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|Financial year|Amount paid (£)|
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|2003-04       |353,470        |
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|2004-05       |836,478        |
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|2005-06       |771,404        |
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|2006-07       |1,117,657      |
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|2007-08       |1,073,847      |
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|2008-09       |1,102,167      |
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