4. BREAKDOWN OF SPENDING PROGRAMME
(continued)
4.5 Community Care (Q54-Q55)
4.5.1 What has net expenditure by central
and local government on community care been in each year since
1997-98? Can the data be broken down by residential and on-residential
care and include social security and housing expenditure contributing
to community care objectives? (Q54)
ANSWER
1. Table 54 provides details of central
and local government net expenditure on services for community
care in England between 1997-98 and provisionally, in most cases,
2005-06. All figures have been adjusted to 2004-05 prices using
the latest Gross Domestic Product deflator.
2. Community care expenditure is taken to
mean expenditure on non-residential and residential care provided
or arranged by local authorities for adults; community health
services provided by the NHS for adults; certain social security
benefits which support community care objectives; and certain
expenditure on housing.
3. Comparison of the data in Table 54 from
2004-05 onwards is affected as a consequence of discontinued data
collection in respect to community health expenditure. From 2004-05
the data required to calculate hospital and community health services
expenditure by service sector ceased to be collected. Instead,
the Department of Health initiated a replacement data collection
to collect expenditure on a programme budgeting basis.
4. Furthermore, the publication of Local
Authority domicilary care and residential care expenditure data
at Lines A and C are not yet available. This is anticipated to
be published in January 2007.
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