The Sunday Telegraph suggests that the Pooled Treatment Budget will be cut over coming years:
The flagship government scheme for treating drug addicts faces swingeing budget cuts of £50 million, it can be revealed today.
Plans to slash total funding by more than 12 per cent, outlined in an email leaked to The Sunday Telegraph, come less than a fortnight after Gordon Brown tried to show off his anti-drug credentials by signalling his desire to reclassify cannabis from Class C to the more serious Class B.
We of course know that the Young People’s Substance Misuse Grant suffered a 10% cut this year, the effects of which are now becoming apparent:
Source: Sunday Telegraph July 2007