Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding has been allocated for addiction services in (a) England and (b) each local authority in each financial year since 2009-10.
The public health grant is allocated to local authorities to meet their public health responsibilities and no amount is specifically allocated for addiction services. It is up to each local authority how much of the grant they allocate to these services.
The following table shows the overall public health grant allocations for England in each financial year since 2013-14. Allocations to individual local authorities are published each year and are available to view at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-circulars
Public health grant allocation to local authorities between 2013-14 and 2020-21
Year | Public health grant (£'000 million) |
2013-14 | 2,662,919 |
2014-15 | 2,794,899 |
2015-16 | 3,031,236 |
2016-17 | 3,387,460 |
2017-18 | 3,303,958 |
2018-19 | 3,219,000 |
2019-20 | 3,134,000 |
2020-21 | 3,279,000 |
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-circulars
Before 2013, there was specific funding allocated for substance misuse treatment, which was called the pooled treatment budget (PTB). The following shows the figures for 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13. Data before 2010 is not available.
PTB for substance misuse treatment between 2010-11 and 2012-13
Year | National PTB (£ million) |
2010-11 | 406.70 |
2011-12 | 466.70 |
2012-13 | 466.70 |
Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20150504104404/http://www.nta.nhs.uk/funding.aspx