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Written question asked by Mark Hoban (Conservative) on Wednesday, 16 July 2014, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 21 July 2014. It was answered by Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 22 July 2014 on behalf of the Department of Health.


Cerebral Palsy

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of supporting people with cerebral palsy.

Answer

No estimate has been made of the cost to the public purse of supporting people with cerebral palsy.

National Health Service expenditure on cerebral palsy is included in the programme budgeting category ‘neurological problems’, but cannot be separately identified. Aggregate annual NHS expenditure in this category in 2012-13, the latest period for which data is available, was £4.44 billion.

The programme budgeting data return is an analysis of commissioning expenditure by healthcare condition and care centre based on figures provided to NHS England by primary care trusts (PCTs) and PCT successor organisations. Programme budgeting data, as well as further information on how these figures were calculated, can be found on the NHS England website at the following link:

www.england.nhs.uk/resources/resources-for-ccgs/prog-budgeting/


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
206285
Session
2014-15
Subjects
Costs Cerebral palsy
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk