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In addition to retaining the payment that GPs who opt out must give up, GPs who cannot opt out will receive a share of the out-of-hours developmentfund. That fund is increasing in size from £6.3 million to £10 million by 2005-06.
Was the matched funding method of financing the domestic abuse service developmentfund taken into consideration when local authorities' budgets were set?
Although I have drawn attention to some figures, the question does not reduce simply to asking, for example, "Spending on economic development has been cut back. Is that supportive or unsupportive of economic development?"
On the financial front, the trust vehicle allows for the capturing of external resources from other funds, which substantially boosts the funding available for service development.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 September 2003
We are monitoring through local agreements the outcomes achieved by individual councils for the significant resources we are providing specifically to develop additional respite services. S2W-01964
We recommend introducing a new element of flexibility into the rule to enable an alternative provision to be substituted for the part of the rule that has been suspended.