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Primary Care Trusts

Answer

The information available is shown in the table.

	Expenditure per head on the national health service commissioning of learning disability services (£)
1997–98	26.09
1998–99	26.79
1999–2000	29.02
2000–01	30.50
2001–02	31.17
2002–03	28.45
2003–04	32.41
2004–05	33.66

Figures relate to expenditure on the commissioning of learning disability services by primary care trusts (PCTs) and health authorities in England.Expenditure figures for 1997–98 to 2001–02 contain an element of double counting where one organisation would commission healthcare through another. This cannot be eliminated and may be responsible for the apparent fall in expenditure in 2002–03. All figures from 2002–03 exclude the double counting and are therefore more reliable.This expenditure is for the purchase of secondary healthcare only; the Department has no information for primary care expenditure in this area.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

443 c1631-2W;443 c1631-2W; 51363

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Learning disability Primary care trusts Per capita costs

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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