Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding from the public health grant his Department allocated to Blackpool for drug treatment budgets in the years (a) 2010-11, (b) 2013-14, (c) 2014-15, (d) 2015-16 and (e) 2016-17.

The public health grant is allocated to local authorities to meet all of their public health responsibilities and no amount is specifically allocated for drug treatment. It is up to each local authority to decide how much of the grant they wish to allocate to drug treatment services.

The public health grant has a condition which requires local authorities to have regard to the need to improve the take up of, and outcomes from, its drug and alcohol misuse treatment services.

Since it began in 2013, the public health grant allocation to Blackpool has been as follows;

2013-14 £17.46 million

2014-15 £17.95 million

2015-16 £18.29 million

2016-17 £19.39 million

Prior to 2013, drug treatment was mainly funded through a central government contribution known as the pooled treatment budget. In 2010-11, the pooled treatment budget allocation to Blackpool was £2.7 million.