2. INVESTMENT (continued)
2.5.3 Could the Department compare actual
capital spend by social services departments with allocations
in each year since 1997-98? Could the Department comment on comparability
through the period? (Q21)
ANSWER
1. Table 21 compares total actual capital
spend by social services departments with the funding provided
by the Department of Health through supported capital expenditure.
2. The table shows that annual total capital
spend has doubled between 1997-98 and 2004-05. Provisional estimates
for 2005-06 suggest total capital expenditure will be £386
million.
3. Capital support provided by the Department
is only one source of capital for local authorities. Local authorities
can fund their capital requirements in other ways, for example
through capital receipts, joint funding, EU funding and through
the Private Finance Initiative.
4. Additional capital support is also provided
by the Department for Education and Skills which took over responsibility
for children's social services from 1 April 2003.
Table 21
LOCAL AUTHORITY PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES
CAPITAL EXPENDITURE, DEPARTMENTAL SUPPORTED CAPITAL EXPENDITURE
1997-98 TO 2005-06
|
| £ millions | 1997-98
| 1998-99 | 1999-2000
| 2000-01 | 2001-02
| 2002-03 | 2003-04
| 2004-05 | 2005-06
(pro-
visional)
|
|
| Total spend | 150.0
| 140.0 | 134.0
| 163.0 | 158.0
| 199.3 | 260.0
| 299.0 | 386.0(4)
|
| Capital grants | 13.2
| 8.2 | 6.2
| 8.2 | 9.3
| 40.7 | 25.0
| 25.0 | |
| Credit approvals/supported capital expenditure (revenue)
| 68.2 | 53.7
| 55.7 | 55.7
| 55.7 | 55.7
| 50.2 | 52.9
| |
| Total provision | 81.4
| 62.0 | 62.0
| 63.9 | 65.0
| 96.5 | 75.2
| 77.9 |
|
|
Source:
Local Government Finance Statistics.
Footnotes:
1. Figures may not sum due to rounding.
2. Figures to include children's services up to 2002-03.
3. Credit approvals abolished 31 March 2004.
4. Financing figures for 2005-06 provisionally anticipated to be available November 2006.
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