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1300148

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2021
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Government's announcement on 16 January 2021 of additional £120 million of funding for local authorities to boost staffing levels in the care sector during the covid-19 outbreak, whether he plans to take steps to (a) allocate the funding across local authorities, (b) ensure that funding is allocated according to level of need and (c) make that funding available on a permanent footing for local authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
	uin	164649
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p>The £120 million Workforce Capacity Fund for adult social care is available until 31 March and was created to address critical staffing shortages caused by COVID-19. The Government announced local authority allocations on 16 January. These were calculated using the Adult Social Care Relative Needs Formula and are available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-capacity-fund-for-adult-social-care" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-capacity-fund-for-adult-social-care</a></p><p> </p><p>In 2021-22 we expect to provide local authorities with estimated funding of £3 billion to help manage the impact of COVID-19. Of this, £1.55 billion is being provided as grant funding directly for spending pressures on local authority services, including adult social care. We are actively reviewing the need for further funding for adult social care and decisions will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 30/03/2021 10:22:44 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1316887

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that the next Comprehensive Spending Review delivers sustainable funding to adult social care.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
	uin	4720
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2021 answer text <p>At SR20, we announced we are providing councils with access to over £1bn to fund social care this year. This includes £300m of new grant funding for social care, on top of the £1bn Social Care grant announced last financial year which is being maintained in line with the government’s manifesto commitment. This will support local authorities to maintain care services while keeping up with rising demand and recovering from the impact of COVID-19.</p><p>Decisions on Local Government spending beyond 2021-22 will be taken as part of the next Spending Review. Further details about the Spending Review will be set out in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 25/05/2021 06:54:54 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

435870

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what comparative assessment he has made of the ability of local authorities in the (a) poorest and (b) richest areas in England to meet their social care spending needs through a two per cent council tax charge.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	18915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government recognises that councils have varying capacity to raise money through council tax. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government will shortly publish for consultation the provisional local government finance settlement for 2016-17. This will include proposed changes to rebalance support, including to those authorities with social care responsibilities, by taking into account the main resources available to councils, including council tax.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/12/2015 13:21:29 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1607743

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2023
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of his Department's annual budget (a) will be spent on social care in 2022-23 and (b) was spent on social care in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	174382
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2023 answer text <p>Detailed breakdowns of the Department’s expenditure are included in the Departmental Annual Report and Accounts. These breakdowns report the limit of audited expenditure detail that is available, but do not include all spending categories covered in these questions. Where possible, we have included both audited spending data and the Departmental estimates to answer some but not all of these questions below. Final figures for 2022/23 figures are not yet available.</p><p>All primary care, including General Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical and Ophthalmic Services are commissioned and paid for by NHS England and integrated care boards. The following table summarises the expenditure on these services reported in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts and compares that to the total Departmental Resource DEL (RDEL) spending for the period.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2021-2022</p></td><td><p>2020-2021</p></td><td><p>2019-2020</p></td><td><p>2018-2019</p></td><td><p>2017-2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Department RDEL Outturn (by million £s)</p></td><td><p>183,664</p></td><td><p>181,441</p></td><td><p>134,183</p></td><td><p>125,278</p></td><td><p>120,650</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Of which, spending by NHS England on Primary Care -</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services</p></td><td><p>3,100</p></td><td><p>3,062</p></td><td><p>3,089</p></td><td><p>2,920</p></td><td><p>2,945</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General, Personal and Alternative Provider Medical Services</p></td><td><p>11,365</p></td><td><p>10,399</p></td><td><p>9,154</p></td><td><p>8,526</p></td><td><p>8,274</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pharmaceutical Services</p></td><td><p>2,341</p></td><td><p>2,124</p></td><td><p>1,961</p></td><td><p>1,935</p></td><td><p>1,907</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General Ophthalmic Services</p></td><td><p>561</p></td><td><p>590</p></td><td><p>548</p></td><td><p>554</p></td><td><p>556</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>17,367</p></td><td><p>16,176</p></td><td><p>14,752</p></td><td><p>13,935</p></td><td><p>13,682</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>as a % of total Departmental RDEL</p></td><td><p>9.5%</p></td><td><p>8.9%</p></td><td><p>11.0%</p></td><td><p>11.1%</p></td><td><p>11.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: DHSC Annual Report and Accounts, “Departmental Group Detail – Expenditure” tables</p><p>The vast majority of social care funding is held by local Government and is not part of the Department’s budgets. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ core spending power tables provide an overview of the core grants available to local authorities. These can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2023-to-2024" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2023-to-2024</a></p><p>The Department’s Resource DEL budget does fund a smaller amount of social care-related spending. This budget includes some grants paid directly to local Government, with the majority managed by NHS England via the Better Care Fund (BCF). A small amount of central spending is managed directly within the Department. The table below provides estimates of the related expenditure incurred by the Department and compares that to the total Department Resource DEL spending for the period.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2021-2022</p></td><td><p>2020-2021</p></td><td><p>2019-2020</p></td><td><p>2018-2019</p></td><td><p>2017-2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Department RDEL outturn (by million £s)</p></td><td><p>183,664</p></td><td><p>181,441</p></td><td><p>134,183</p></td><td><p>125,278</p></td><td><p>120,650</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS England contribution to BCF for Adult Social Care</p></td><td><p>2,007</p></td><td><p>1,894</p></td><td><p>1,779</p></td><td><p>1,627</p></td><td><p>1,594</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Department’s social care related expenditure (including grants)</p></td><td><p>1,288</p></td><td><p>1,443</p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p>164</p></td><td><p>166</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>3,295</p></td><td><p>3,336</p></td><td><p>1,951</p></td><td><p>1,791</p></td><td><p>1,760</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>as a % of total Departmental RDEL</p></td><td><p>1.8%</p></td><td><p>1.8%</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td><td><p>1.4%</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Departmental estimates</p><p>Expenditure on community care is not strictly defined and not separately reported in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts. Provision of community care will cross organisations and expenditure types, so it is not possible to provide separate spending figures for this category.</p><p>RDEL expenditure on diagnostics is not strictly defined and not separately reported in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts. Spending on diagnostic services will cross organisations and expenditure types, so it is not possible to provide separate spending figures for this category.</p><p>Capital expenditure on diagnostic equipment is usually made at local level through integrated care system capital envelopes and is subject to local decision making on prioritisation. The national total for all local capital investment is £4.2 billion for 2022/23.</p><p>In addition to that, the Government has provided an extra £2.3 billion for the period between 2022/23 to 2024/25 to transform diagnostic services, and to roll out up to a total of 160 community diagnostic centres by March 2025 to help improve diagnostic services up and down the country, and other specific capital funding to improve diagnostic capacity has been provided through national programmes. The following table provides a timeseries showing the periods for which data is available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2021-2022</p></td><td><p>2020-2021</p></td><td><p>2019-2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Departmental CDEL Outturn (by million £s)</p></td><td><p>7,126</p></td><td><p>12,683</p></td><td><p>7,015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Diagnostic Programme</p></td><td><p>273</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>97</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>as a % of total Departmental CDEL</p></td><td><p>3.8%</p></td><td><p>0.8%</p></td><td><p>1.4%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: The above shows national capital investment and does not include operational capital.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 174380 174383 174384 question first answered 05/04/2023 09:30:34 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 66757 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1663415

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the policy paper entitled 2023 to 2025 Better Care Fund policy framework, published on 5 April 2023, how his Department is using the additional £1.6 billion funding for the discharge of hospital patients into social care.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	201269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>The 2023 to 2025 Better Care Fund policy framework allows areas to plan more strategically over a longer period. We have committed at least £16.8 billion to improve discharge, as well as reduce pressure on urgent and emergency care, social care, intermediate care, unpaid carers and housing. This includes an extra £600 million in 2023/24 and £1 billion in 2024/25 allocated via the Discharge Fund to local authorities and integrated care boards. They have the flexibility to spend this in ways they deem most appropriate to assist local areas in freeing up the maximum number of hospital beds and reducing bed days lost through, for example, short-term packages of care, community-based reablement capacity or building the workforce capacity needed to continue to support care users.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 24/10/2023 14:35:05 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1348333

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the finding of the Disabled Children’s Partnerships report, Left Behind, published 16 July 2021, that over half of local authorities have failed to meet their targets for providing Education, Health and Care plan assessments, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on increasing long-term funding for disabled children’s social care services.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	35837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2021 answer text <p>HM Treasury Ministers regularly meet with other government departments and a range of stakeholders, which includes discussions around support for disabled children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>To support local areas, the government has given over £6 billion in un-ringfenced funding directly to councils to support them with the immediate and longer-term impacts of COVID-19 spending pressures, including children’s services. At last year’s Spending Review, we provided councils with access to over £1bn of spending for social care through £300m of new social care grant and the ability to introduce a 3% adult social care precept. This funding was additional to the £1 billion social care grant announced in 2019 which was maintained in line with the government's manifesto.</p><p> </p><p>We are also increasing education funding for children with complex special educational needs and disabilities by nearly a quarter in two years, to £8 billion this year.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work with other government departments, including Department for Education and the Ministry of Housing, Communities &amp;</p><p>Local Government, to ensure the upcoming Spending Review reflects the needs of children’s social care services.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 26/07/2021 08:31:18 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1236699

	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people with mental health problems who accessed publicly funded social care in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	93645
	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 93646 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

1536086

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2022
	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: Finance
	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 increase the amount allocated to Adult Social Care in line with inflation.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	71153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>In 2022/23, we have made an additional £3.7 billion available for councils for 2022/23, including £1 billion for social care.</p><p>The Government has announced support for all businesses, charities and public sector organisations with energy costs this winter, equivalent to the domestic price cap of £2,500 provided to businesses for the next six months.  The level of funding for social care is kept under continuous review.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 07/11/2022 16:59:53 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1610095

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	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: Finance
	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 assessment his Department has made of the impact of changes in the level of social care workforce train and retain funding on the number of social care vacancies.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	180228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>No assessments have been made.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 180229 question first answered 20/04/2023 14:59:43 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1610096

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	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: Finance
	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 assessment his Department has made of the impact of changes in the level of social care workforce train and retain funding on charitable and not-for-profit providers.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	180229
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>No assessments have been made.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 180228 question first answered 20/04/2023 14:59:43 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft