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  "Councils' gross current expenditure on adult social care in England, in £ thousands, in each financial year, as Table 4 of the Department of Health and Social Care's adult social care finance report gives it from the adult social care finance return (ASC-FR), which England's councils with adult social services responsibilities complete.",
  "Cash terms are each year's spending as it was; real terms are adjusted for inflation, by HM Treasury's GDP deflators as Table 4 says, so the latest year's figure is the same in both. Table 4 gives the years before the latest to the nearest £1,000.",
  "Table 3 of the same file gives each council's and region's spending in the latest two years; the hub checks that they add up to England's and that England's are Table 4's."
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