Written question WQ84045
- Asked by
- Andrew RT DaviesConservative
- To be answered by
- Minister for Health and Social Services
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 9 days
Question
Will the Minister detail the number of individuals resident in Wales who started residential rehabilitation for drug and alcohol use in 2019-20 and 2020-21, along with the average cost per place?
Answer
Answered by Deputy Minister for Social Services
The Welsh Government does not hold data on individual residents in Wales who have undertaken residential rehabilitation.
However, the Welsh Government allocates £1m ring fence annual funding from the Substance Misuse Action Fund to Area Planning Boards for the provision of Tier 4 services. Officials scrutinise spend against the £1m Tier 4 ring fence as part of the annual approval process for APB expenditure plans.
In 2019/20 there were 96 individual placements in residential rehabilitation equating to £10,230.93 on average per placement. In 2020/21 there were 127 placements equating to £9,202.96 per placement.