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Written question asked by Kerry McCarthy (Labour) on Friday, 13 April 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 17 April 2007. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Wednesday, 16 May 2007 on behalf of the Home Office.


Drug Interventions Programme

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) budget allocation is for each intensive DIP area in 2007-08; and if he will make a statement.
Answer

Over £500 million has been invested as part of the Drug Interventions Programme since its inception in 2003. Record numbers of offenders are entering treatment through the programme and drug related acquisitive crime has reduced substantially. The DIP Main Grant, which is the key mechanism for allocating budgets to areas, is being allocated to intensive areas as in the following table.

Indicative intensive area budgets 2007-08
Amount (£)
London
Brent 1,203,160
Camden 1,191,678
Croydon 1,001,817
Ealing 988,786
Enfield 759,292
Greenwich 827,205
Hackney 1,513,524
Hammersmith and Fulham 1,118,469
Haringey 1,243,541
Hounslow 794,244
Islington 1,333,277
Kensington and Chelsea 1,008,137
Lambeth 1,930,537
Lewisham 1,378,639
Newham 1,357,782
Redbridge 663,812
Southwark 1,655,389
Tower Hamlets 1,415,658
Waltham Forrest 925,327
Wandsworth 1,034,156
Westminster 2,016,350
Yorkshire and Humber
Barnsley 807,613
Bradford 1,926,287
Calderdale 685,101
Doncaster 1,317,965
Kingston upon Hull 1,422,020
Kirklees 1,219,885
Leeds 2,737,443
North East Lincolnshire 914,255
North Lincolnshire 786,869
Rotherham 756,064
Sheffield 2,348,164
Wakefield 1 ,094,559
East Midlands
Leicester 1,558,632
Northamptonshire 1,034,269
Nottingham 1,794,787
Nottinghamshire 2,339,136
East of England
Luton 700,528
Peterborough 774,057
South West
Bristol 2,448,659
North East
Gateshead 627,944
Hartlepool 609,010
Middlesbrough 1,022,237
Newcastle Upon Tyne 1,290,574
Stockton 688,901
Sunderland 782,823
West Midlands
Birmingham 5,287,239
Coventry 900,865
Dudley 723,448
Sandwell 1,003,679
Solihull 407,131
Walsall 642,837
Wolverhampton 826,579
North West
Bolton 1,136,727
Bury 552,298
Liverpool 2,154,389
Manchester 2,848,647
Oldham 890,494
Rochdale 778,885
Salford 771,116
Stockport 664,181
Tameside 823,130
Trafford 693,096
Wigan 1,046,181
South East
Oxfordshire 1,195,115
Reading 1,106,837
Slough 854,146

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
132345; 460 c802-4W
Session
2006-07
Related items
Drug Interventions Programme
Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Drug interventions programme
Link
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