Written question asked by Philip Davies (Conservative) on Monday, 6 March 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 8 March 2006. It was answered by Liam Byrne (Labour) on Monday, 20 March 2006 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Learning Disabilities

Question: (2) what her latest estimate is of the number of people with learning difficulties (a) who have been assessed as needing support and (b) who have not received the assessed support from district care trusts in (i) Bradford district, (ii) Yorkshire and (iii) England in a one-year period;

Answer

The Government's third report on learning disability, ““Valuing People: Making things better”” was published in November 2005. The report details what the Government has done during 2004 for people with learning disabilities and also details what our next steps will be. This is available on the Department's website at www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/12/38/69/04123869.pdfThe number of people with learning difficulties who have been assessed as needing support is not held centrally.The learning disability development fund (LDDF) was introduced in 2002–03. Revenue allocations to primary care trusts (PCTs) from the LDDF are shown in the table.From 2003–04 to 2005–06 LDDF capital allocations of £20 million per annum were made as part of strategic capital allocations to strategic health authorities (SHAs). The LDDF is not separately identified in SHA capital allocations.The LDDF is only a small part of the funding available to PCTs for learning disabilities services. PCTs also have money available to them through specialist budgets, continuing care budgets and their mainstream budgets for example, where they can draw funding from to fund learning disabilities services. It is up to PCTs to decide how they allocate funds.

				£000
	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06
Bradford district	183	188	193	407
Yorkshire	1,763	1,927	1.973	4,138
England	19,598	21,052	19,232	41,595
⁽⁵⁵⁾ Bradford district is defined as Bradford Health Authority for 2002–03 and Airedale PCT, Bradford City PCT, Bradford South and West PCT and North Bradford PCT for 2003–04 onwards
⁽⁵⁶⁾ Yorkshire is defined as North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire Strategic Health Authority (SHA), South Yorkshire SHA and West Yorkshire SHA.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 57115; 444 c160-1W;444 c160-1W
Session: 2005-06
Subjects: Learning disability
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

Learning Disabilities

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