Health written question – answered at on 1 June 2009.
John Cummings
Labour, Easington
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the treatment of drug misuse in the Durham Primary Care Trust area in each of the last three years.
Dawn Primarolo
Minister of State (Department of Health) (Public Health)
The following table shows expenditure on substance misuse by the County Durham Primary Care Trust for the last three years in which data are available.
| Expenditure on own population (£000) | |
| 2004-05 | 3,412 |
| 2005-06 | 3,988 |
| 2006-07 | 4,362 |
| Note: Figures do not include prevention or general medical services expenditure. Source: Department of Health Programme Budgeting | |
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