Written question asked by Baroness May of Maidenhead (Conservative) on Tuesday, 4 December 2001, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 10 December 2001. It was answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern (Labour) on Monday, 10 December 2001 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list for each local authority (a) the sum spent on regulation of inspection of care homes in 2000-01, (b) the sum budgeted for regulation of inspection of care homes in 2001-02 and (c) the sum top-sliced for regulation of inspection of care homes in 2002-03. - Including figure and fact that the information requested for the sum spent and the sum budgeted for regulation of inspection of care homes not available centrally. Total expenditure on registration and inspection by each local authority in England in 1999-2000 is available at http://www.doh.gov.uk/public/pss-stat.htm. A table placed in Library.

Answer: Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each local authority (a) the sum spent on regulation of inspection of care homes in 2000-01, (b) the sum budgeted for regulation of inspection of care homes in 2001-02 and (c) the sum top-sliced for regulation of inspection of care homes in 2002-03. [21731] Jacqui Smith: The information requested for the sum spent and the sum budgeted for regulation of inspection of care homes is not available centrally. Total expenditure on registration and inspection by each local authority in England in 1999-2000 is available at http://www.doh.gov.uk/ public/pss--stat.htm, but this includes expenditure on the regulatory function for children under eight transferred to OFSTED. £87 million has been transferred from the personal social services standard spending assessments for the National Care Standards Commission to reflect the transfer of the remaining registration and inspection function. This is shown for each authority in a table which has been placed in the Library.

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