To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department has spent on funding drug treatment services in each year since 1997; and what the projected expenditure on drug treatment services is in each year to 2010-11.

Since 2001, the Department and the Home Office have provided specific resources for drug treatment in the form of the pooled drug treatment budget (PTB). This funding is allocated to 149 drug teams across the country to use, along with local mainstream funding to provide for treatment and services according to the specific needs of each locality. Information on drug treatment spend prior to 2001 is not held centrally.