Public and general interest
Funding
How drug treatment services are funded
Government funding for drug treatment services has increased significantly since 2001.
The NTA allocates central government funding (known as the pooled treatment budget – PTB) to local partnerships on the basis of demand via primary care trusts (PCTs), strategic health authorities (SHAs) and the Young People’s Substance Misuse Partnership Grant.
The NTA aims to ensure that this money is spent to best effect, on treatment that genuinely works and that meets the needs of all of those who require it. Additional funding is often also made available to improve access to treatment, and care and support following treatment.
How the NTA is funded
The NTA receives funding from several government sources.
We provide information about the organisation and how we spend the money allocated to us on our website, and through our published accounts and Board papers.
Published copies of the NTA’s annual accounts (ISBN: 9780102973716) are available from The Stationery Office at £10.25. Telephone orders/general enquiries: 0870 600 5522.
More about the pooled treatment budget (PTB)
Combined funding from the Home Office and the Department of Health, known as the Pooled Treatment Budget (PTB), for drug treatment services is allocated annually to Drug Action Team partnerships (DATs).
Allocations to Drug Action Teams are made on a formula basis that recognises key deprivation factors, ensuring the money goes to the areas most in need. DATs then commission treatment services to meet the assessed needs of individuals in their area.
Drug treatment budgets, activity and outcome data 2004-05 to 2008-09
| | | | Adult
pooled treatment
budget | | Local Funding1 | | Total funding1 | | Number of adults
in effective treatment2 | | Total treatment funding
per adult
in effective treatment |
2004-05 | | | £225m | | £226m | | £481m | | 134,000 | | £3,600 |
2005-06 | | | £300m | | £226m | | £526m | | 145,000 | | £3,600 |
2006/07 | | | £380m | | £224m | | £604m | | 164,000 | | £3,700 |
2007-08 | | | £383m | | £207m | | £590m | | 183,000 | | £3,200 |
2008-09 | | | £373m | | £208m | | £581m | | 195,000 | | £3,000 |
Source: Tackling problem drug use – National Audit Office 2010
1 Funding figures at 2008-09 prices
2 Effective treatment – adults who are discharged from treatment 12 weeks or more after triage, or who remain in treatment 12 weeks after triage, or who were discharges from treatment within 12 weeks in a planned way
A detailed breakdown of the allocations of the 2010/11 pooled treatment budget (PTB) can be found
here.
A detailed breakdown of the allocations of the 2011/12 pooled treatment budget (PTB) can be found
here.
A detailed breakdown of the allocations of the 2012/13 pooled treatment budget (PTB) can be found
here.
- A detailed breakdown of 2011/12 adult prison substance misuse funding can be found here.
- A detailed breakdown of 2011/12 children and young people's secure estate substance misuse funding can be found here.