Written question asked by Cathy Jamieson (Labour) on Friday, 4 February 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 8 February 2011. It was answered by Simon Burns (Conservative) on Friday, 11 February 2011 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much Barnett consequential funding his Department has provided to each devolved Administration in (a) 2010-11 to date and (b) each of the last three years; and with which programmes such funding was associated.

Answer: In the 2010 spending review changes in the departmental expenditure limit (DEL) budgets of the devolved Administrations were determined by the Barnett formula in the normal way. The settlements for the years 2011-12 to 2014-15 were published in table 2.22 of the 2010 Spending Review document (Cm 7942).Barnett consequentials relating to each of the devolved administrations for the years 2008-09 to 2010-11 are published as part of the Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses Supplementary Material on the Treasury's website under the heading House of Lords Select Committee on the Barnett Formula and is available at:"www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/pespub_pesa10.htm"Updated tables taking account of adjustments since the publication of the 2010 edition of Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) will be published alongside the next edition of PESA later this year.Information on the block grants paid by the territorial offices to the devolved Administrations is published alongside the main and supplementary estimates.

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