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Dept for Transport Local Government and the Regions

Answer

Mrs. Anne Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions what is the standard spending assessment for social services for elderly people, per pensioner, for (i) Cambridgeshire and (ii) Suffolk in each year from 1990-91 to 2001-02, adjusted for inflation at current values; and what is the Standard Spending Assessment for social services for child protection, per child under the age of 18, for (i) Cambridgeshire and (ii) Suffolk in each year from 1990-91 to 2001-02, adjusted for inflation at current values. [36757] Dr. Whitehead: The Department does not keep data on people of pensionable age covering the entire period. The table gives the Elderly Personal Social Services (PSS) Standard Spending Assessment (SSA) per person aged 65 and over together with the Children's PSS SSA per child aged 0 to 17, adjusted for inflation at current values{1}, for Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. The SSAs have been averaged over the number of people for the period used in calculating the SSAs ie for 2001-02, the mid-1999 population estimates have been used. £ per head _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Elderly PSS SSA per person aged 65 and over Children's PSS SSA per child aged 0 to 17 Year Cambridgeshire{ 2} Suffolk Cambridgeshire Suffolk 1990-91 270.85 264.04 89.46 82.84 1991-92 313.57 306.72 98.98 92.18 1992-93 320.24 320.50 104.10 96.73 1993-94 318.00 320.49 106.92 99.92 1994-95 374.16 369.86 131.49 114.93 1995-96 439.80 429.71 128.47 109.23 1996-97 494.24 483.29 124.30 107.31 1997-98 533.58 517.89 117.06 103.95 1998-99 528.18 533.30 102.84 105.23 1999-2000 549.29 551.14 95.68 104.30 2000-01 564.21 566.68 97.10 106.89 2001-02 565.25 574.07 91.50 100.42 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Deflated using the GDP Deflator, 2001-02 equals 100. {2} The Cambridgeshire (City of Peterborough) (Structural, Boundary and Electoral Changes) Order 1996 came into force on 1 April 1998. Prior to this Cambridgeshire county council also provided services for the area now covered by Peterborough city council.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

36757; 380 c828W;380 c830W

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Children Pensioners Protection Social services Suffolk Cambridgeshire Standard spending assessments

Contains statistics

Yes

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