National Child Measurement Programme
(asked on 1st September 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the cost of the National Child Measurement Programme.
On 1 April 2013, Public Health England (PHE) took on responsibility for national oversight of the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). The total cost of the programme to PHE for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 financial years are shown in the following table.
Financial Year | Programme costs | Capital costs | Totals |
2013-14 | £323,000.00 | £1,089,419.00 | £1,412,419.00 |
2014-15 | £340,000.00 | - | £340,000.00 |
| £1,752,419.00 | ||
There were exceptional costs in 2013-14 due to the need to develop a new NCMP IT system to enable local authorities to carry out their statutory duty of returning NCMP data to the Health and Social Care Information Centre.