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1654140

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what criteria social service departments use to assess the (1) need, and (2) means, of applicants for social care.
	tabling member printed	Lord Turnberg
	uin	HL9472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing individuals’ care and support needs and, where eligible, for meeting those needs. Where individuals do not meet the eligibility threshold, they can get support from their local authorities in making their own arrangements for care services, as set out in the Care Act 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Eligible needs are those which relate to, for example, maintaining personal hygiene and nutrition, and maintaining and developing relationships, and which significantly impact on the adult’s wellbeing. Full details of the eligibility requirements can be found in The Care and Support (Eligibility Criteria) Regulations 2014.</p><p> </p><p>We do not currently hold data on how many applications for social care have been assessed for need. Through a new data collection, Client Level Data, we are beginning to collect event-level information from local authorities on adult social care activity. This will include records of assessment of eligible needs and the funding status of local authority-commissioned services.</p><p> </p><p>To assess means, local authorities must follow The Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resources) Regulations 2014 and have regard to the Care and Support Statutory (CASS) guidance. The responsibility for interpreting and applying the Regulations and the CASS guidance rests with local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>Whether or not a person qualifies for any financial support towards their care costs depends on their capital assets as follows: anyone who has above the upper capital limit of £23,250 is expected to meet the full cost of their care; anyone who has below the lower capital limit of £14,250 pays what they can afford from income only; and anyone between the above two limits pays what they can afford from income plus a contribution from their assets.</p><p> </p><p>A means-tested contribution from assets is determined by tariff income, which assumes that a person can afford to pay £1 per week for every £250 of assets between the limits. In 2021/22 there were almost 1,978,550 requests for support from new clients received by local authorities. Data on the funding of means testing done in the past 10 years is not held centrally.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL9474 question first answered 24/07/2023 14:24:05 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	2537 label Biography information for Lord Turnberg

1236700

	registered interest
	date	22/09/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department collects on the number of people with mental health problems with unmet social care needs in England; and what recent assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of unmet social care needs of people with mental health problems.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	93646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2020 answer text <p>Information is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 93645 question first answered 08/10/2020 14:44:10 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1172329

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with representatives of other political parties on the proposed cross-party talks on social care reform.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Morgan
	uin	6181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>Putting social care on a sustainable footing, where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, is one of the biggest challenges we face as a society. The government will bring forward a plan for social care this year. There are complex questions to address, which is why we will seek to build cross-party consensus, but we have been clear: everybody will have safety and security, and nobody will be forced to sell their home to pay for care.</p><p>Dementia is a priority for the Government, and we remain committed to delivering the Challenge on Dementia 2020 to make England the best country in the world for dementia care. We will be setting out our new plans on dementia for England for the period 2020-2025 later this year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 6179 6182 question first answered 29/01/2020 13:43:21 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1172327

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to hold cross-party talks on social care reform.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Morgan
	uin	6179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>Putting social care on a sustainable footing, where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, is one of the biggest challenges we face as a society. The government will bring forward a plan for social care this year. There are complex questions to address, which is why we will seek to build cross-party consensus, but we have been clear: everybody will have safety and security, and nobody will be forced to sell their home to pay for care.</p><p>Dementia is a priority for the Government, and we remain committed to delivering the Challenge on Dementia 2020 to make England the best country in the world for dementia care. We will be setting out our new plans on dementia for England for the period 2020-2025 later this year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 6181 6182 question first answered 29/01/2020 13:43:21 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1459330

	registered interest
	date	21/04/2022
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with local authorities on support for those bodies to help address shortages in the social care system.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	157425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>Supporting hospital flow and reducing delayed discharges requires a whole system approach across the National Health Service, adult social care, housing, the voluntary sector and others. Hospital discharge services are therefore supported by staff across a range of health and social care professions in England and in York.</p><p>We have committed at least £500 million to develop the social care workforce, including for training places and for initiatives to improve wellbeing. We are also promoting adult social care careers through national recruitment campaigns, such as ‘Made with Care’ which ran between November 2021 and 31 March 2022. A further campaign for 2022/23 is in development. We are also working with the Department of Work and Pensions to promote adult social care careers to jobseekers. Care workers have been made eligible for the Health and Care Visa and added to the Shortage Occupation List to allow social care employers to recruit eligible workers from overseas.</p><p>In winter 2021/22, we made £462.5 million available to local authorities to increase workforce capacity via the Workforce Recruitment and Retention Funds, including £1,410,240 allocated to York. We have regular discussions with stakeholders, including local government representatives, on a range of issues including the adult social care workforce.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan grouped question UIN 157422 157423 question first answered 27/04/2022 11:28:00 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1669670

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring local authorities to use the same model for the commissioning of social care services.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	1678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>Under the Care Act, local authorities are tasked with the duty to shape their care market to ensure a diverse range of high-quality person-centred care and ensure that support services are provided to meet the needs of the local population. We recognise that this is challenging, and the Government intends to develop a set of national commissioning standards, to set clear expectations of what good commissioning looks like and to drive greater consistency across the country. We are also investing in a new training offer for senior commissioners, to enhance strategic leadership capability and ensure they have the skills they need to shape their markets well. <br> <br> We recently published the Market Sustainability Insights Report, which summaries some of the approaches local authorities in England are taking to building sustainable and innovative care markets. It is designed to be a supportive tool for local authority commissioners and it is available at the following link:<br> <br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-market-sustainability-plans-insights-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-market-sustainability-plans-insights-report</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 20/11/2023 12:14:53 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1667848

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has issued recent guidance to local authorities on the level of social care they should provide before requesting the NHS to take responsibility for patient care.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
	uin	512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>No such recent guidance has been issued. The National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care was last updated in 2022, and is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-framework-for-nhs-continuing-healthcare-and-nhs-funded-nursing-care" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-framework-for-nhs-continuing-healthcare-and-nhs-funded-nursing-care</a></p><p>Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities must assess any adult where it appears the adult may have needs for care and support. Where an individual has healthcare needs such that it appears they may be eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC), the local authority must refer the individual to the National Health Service, who may assess them. Where an individual has been assessed as having a ‘primary health need’ following a CHC assessment the NHS funds their healthcare and associated social care needs in any non-acute setting. If a person is not eligible for CHC, they may potentially receive NHS-funded Nursing Care or a joint package of health and social care which is funded by both the NHS and the local authority.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 16/11/2023 13:18:13 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1644494

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the upcoming workforce strategy for social care will implement recommendations contained in the Delivery Plan for Recovering Access to Primary Care, published by the NHS Confederation on 9 May, including (1) support for pharmacists to implement the Pharmacy First initiative, and (2) additional locum cover for GPs as they transition into 'modern General Practices'.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of London
	uin	HL8443
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2023 answer text <p>In December 2021, we published our People at the Heart of Care white paper, setting out our vision for reforming adult social care, including our strategy for the care workforce. There is no plan to publish a further workforce strategy for adult social care.</p><p> </p><p>To support the National Health Service workforce, we have published the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, which sets out the steps the NHS and its partners need to take to deliver an NHS workforce that meets the changing needs of the population over the next 15 years. It will put the NHS workforce on a sustainable footing for the long term.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 10/07/2023 15:15:28 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	4696 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of London

1642377

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to reform the social care charging system.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	188067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to delivering adult social care charging reform, which will include the introduction of a cap on personal care costs and a significant expansion of the means test. As announced in the Autumn Statement, we have listened to the concerns of local Government and taken the difficult decision to delay the planned reforms. The funding has been retained in local authority budgets to help them meet current pressures.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 15/06/2023 13:04:27 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1587493

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to adult social care in (a) Romford constituency, (b) the London Borough of Havering and (c) the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	148537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government is making available up to £7.5 billion in additional funding over two years to support adult social care and discharge in England with up to £2.8 billion available in 2023/24 and up to £4.7 billion in 2024/25. The final Local Government Finance Settlement for 2023/24 was published on 6 February 2023, and includes details of all grant funding available to all English local authorities to support adult social care and discharge, including Havering Council.</p><p>The department does not hold data on funding provided at constituency level. Alongside additional funding, from April, the Care Quality Commission will begin to assess all local authorities’ delivery of their adult social care duties. This will help drive quality and better outcomes, including accessibility, for those drawing on care and support.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 01/03/2023 14:15:52 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell