Health written question – answered at on 9 November 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the budget was for the (a) infectious diseases: human, (b) mass casualties and (c) health services workstream of the Capabilities programme in each year since 2005; and what the budget will be during the comprehensive spending review period.
There is no allocated programme budget for the infectious diseases workstream of the Capabilities programme. The Department did not have a separate programme budget for the mass casualties or health services workstreams prior to April 2008. However, the total departmental revenue programme funding budgets for the mass casualties and health services workstreams since 2008-09 and for the current and next financial years are as follows:
£ | |||||
2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | |
Mass casualties | 230,000 | 245,000 | 220,000 | 146,000 | 106,000 |
Health services | 899,900 | 660,480 | 322,250 | 0 | 0 |
From 2011-12 onwards, the Department's budgets for the mass casualties and health services workstreams include separate delivery budgets within NHS Finance, Performance and Operations. Programme funding for both sets of budgets has not yet been allocated for the remainder of the comprehensive spending review period beyond 2012-13.
However, since the vast majority of emergency preparedness and civil resilience work is funded from within NHS organisations' own budgets, the level of departmental programme funding is not necessarily indicative of the extent of work being undertaken more widely within the health sector.
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