Department of Health and Social Care: Public Expenditure
(asked on 28th February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) list the spending programmes his Department devolves for administration to local government in England and other local spending bodies and (b) specify the value for each programme for every year for which budgets are agreed.
The following table shows spending on programmes issued to local government in England by the Department in 2020/21 in the form of grants under the Local Government Act 2003.
Local authority funding by scheme | 2020/21 actual expenditure £ ’000s |
Infection Control | 1,146,000 |
Workforce Capacity Fund | 120,000 |
Out of Hours Hospital Care Model for People experiencing Homelessness | 2,549 |
West Midlands Engine | 2,300 |
Learning Disabilities and Autism Community Discharge | 20,000 |
PrEP - HIV drug treatment | 11,222 |
LASSL - local reform and community voices grant, social care in prisons grant and war pensions schemes disregard grant | 57,360 |
Contain Outbreak Management Fund | 1,717,092 |
Test and Trace Business Support to Local authorities | 3,000 |
Test and Trace Isolation Support Payments | 144,743 |
Local Authority Practical Support (for those self-isolating) | 12,900 |
Project Eagle - surge testing support | 3,094 |
Rapid Testing | 149,119 |
Community Testing | 126,615 |
Expenditure data for 2021/22 is not yet available. Spending plans for 2022/23 and beyond are currently being finalised.
This information refers to core Departmental expenditure and does not include spending devolved to local authorities by Departmental arm’s length bodies or spending devolved to local National Health Service bodies via NHS England. The Local Authority Public Health Grant is recorded separately as in 2020/21, this was paid to upper-tier local authorities by the former Public Health England (PHE). The value of the Grant paid to local authorities by PHE in 2020/21 was £3.279 billion. With effect from 1 October 2021, the Department has assumed responsibility for this Grant.