Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the full-year expenditure in each identified category of the Ring-fenced Public Health Grant was for (a) each local authority and (b) England in 2013-14.

This information was published in August, as part of the Revenue Outturn (RO3) statistical returns, and can be found online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2013-to-2014-individual-local-authority-data-outturn

This is the first year that such data has been published, following the new responsibilities being passed to local authorities.

• The new data is provisional, as reported by local authorities.

• Shire districts will be listed with zero entries, as they do not have responsibility for public health.

• At the time of publication forms had not been received from Sefton and Southwark local authorities. The England totals shown include imputed values for these authorities.

• Some upper-tier authorities may have zero entries for some columns due to the manner in which the information has been initially provided by the local authority, by filling in the forms without the necessary detail. I would therefore suggest caution about making comparisons on the categories of expenditure between local authorities, based on the new draft data in its current form.

We are continuing to work to validate and improve it, and to follow up data anomalies with local authorities in partnership with Public Health England.

Final, validated, outturn data will be published later this year.