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384396

registered interest
date	19/06/2015
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, if his Department will update its impact assessment for funding reform to care and support services in England to take account of the Government's policy to increase inheritance tax thresholds by 2020.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	3345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The Impact Assessment for funding reform to care and support sets out the costs and benefits of the reforms and was last updated in February 2013 to support the consultation on draft regulations and guidance. A final Impact Assessment will be published alongside the final regulations and guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 29/06/2015 15:17:25 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

391443

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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, if he will review the potential merits of raising the savings threshold for payment of social care from £23,500 to account for the wide spectrum of medical issues covered by social care.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	7901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government is in the process of considering the future funding of social care as part of the current spending review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 08/09/2015 15:00:37 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

419062

registered interest
date	16/09/2015
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 assessment he has made of the effect of reductions in local authority social care budgets on the prevalence of delayed discharges in the NHS; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	10427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2015 answer text <p>The Department has not formally assessed the relationship between local authority social care budgets and the prevalence of delayed discharges in the National Health Service.</p><p>Internal analysis has been unable to demonstrate a statistical relationship between local authority budgets and delayed transfer of care performance, although qualitative evidence from the sector does indicate the importance of strong and effective social care services in supporting delivery of NHS services.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 13/10/2015 14:35:23 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

419871

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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 steps he plans to take to ensure councils have adequate funding to protect social care following the implementation of the National Living Wage in April 2016.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	11061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>Funding decisions for 2016/17 onwards, including for social care, are subject to the ongoing Spending Review which will review expenditure and future demand for services. This includes considerations such as the forthcoming implementation of the National Living Wage. The Spending Review will be published on 25 November 2015.</p><br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 19/10/2015 13:48:00 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

420143

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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 assessment he has made of the effect of the delay in reform of social care funding until 2020 on the provision of social care; and how many people will be affected by that delay in (a) St Helens North constituency, (b) the North West and (c) the UK.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	11088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>We remain committed to the implementation of the cap on care costs, which will offer financial protection and peace of mind. The decision to delay followed careful consideration of feedback from stakeholders that April 2016 was not the right time to implement these significant and expensive reforms. The benefits of the cap have had to be weighed against the need to focus on supporting the system that supports the most vulnerable.</p><p>In reaching the difficult decision to delay we considered the impact on those who would have entered the cap system from April next year. Though they will not benefit from the additional help straightaway, many will still benefit from the cap system when it is introduced in 2020. The delay will allow local authorities time to focus on consolidating the important reforms to care and support introduced on 1 April 2015, laying the groundwork to implement the funding reforms as successfully as possible in 2020.</p><p>Based on the most recent impact assessment, had the cap system been implemented in April 2016, around 23,000 older people in England would have benefitted immediately in 2016/17 and by 2025/26 up to 80,000 additional older people would have received state support.</p><p>Information regarding how many people will be affected by the delay in specific constituencies or regions is not held in the format requested.</p><p>Means-tested financial support remains available for those who cannot afford to pay for care to meet their eligible needs.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/10/2015 15:53:16 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

426803

registered interest
date	06/11/2015
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 steps he is taking to ensure that providers of care are funded at a sustainable rate; and if he will make it his policy to implement the recommendations relating to care funding in the report by the Homecare Association, entitled the Homecare Deficit, published in March 2015.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	15247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of maintaining a sustainable pool of independent social care providers to give people a choice of quality services.</p><br /><p>The Government welcomes the United Kingdom Home Care Association’s report that was published earlier in the year which made an important contribution to our understanding of pressures in the adult social care system.</p><br /><p>The overall allocation of funds to local government for adult social care that is funded by the state is being considered as part of the current spending review, and the Chancellor will make an announcement later in the month. The Government has taken into consideration demand and inflationary pressures. The Better Care Fund continues to provide additional funding to support integration between health and social care.</p><br /><p>More broadly, the Department is enhancing its market stewardship activity, and will develop a national Market Position Statement to set government’s ambition for the market, and will also continue to work to make the market more effective, in particular, working with the smaller businesses that typify the sector.</p><br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 16/11/2015 17:50:34 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

428689

registered interest
date	17/11/2015
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 modelling his Department has undertaken of the effect on adult social care of different funding allocations for such services.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	16604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2015 answer text <p>Officials in the Department and across Government are working hard to understand pressures on the system and are considering adult social care expenditure and future demand as part of the Spending Review process. This includes modelling of the effect on adult social care of different funding allocations.</p><p>The Spending Review process will formally conclude on 25 November 2015, when the Chancellor will announce the outcome.</p><br /><p>The Department has already commissioned a full review of the Adult Social Care Relative Needs Formula (which is used to allocate funding to local authorities based on indicators such as need, population and wealth) from the Personal Social Services Research Unit (at the University of Kent and the London School of Economics) and LG Futures (a consultancy).</p><br /><p>As part of this review, 53 councils have contributed the most detailed data yet obtained for social care allocations. The researchers are currently writing up the research which will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/11/2015 14:36:12 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

433816

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
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 assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the King's Fund's quarterly monitoring report, published in October 2015, that reductions in local authority social care budgets are adversely affecting health services.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	18587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department is working closely with both local government and the National Health Service to understand how pressures in adult social care services impact on the NHS, and how the sector can best work together to manage those pressures. The Autumn Statement identified £3.5 billion additional funding for adult social care by 2019/20.</p><br /><p>Since April, the Government’s £5.3 billion Better Care Fund (BCF) has provided much needed investment in better integrated care through locally developed plans and by putting resources where the local NHS and social services think they’re needed. The BCF has been the impetus for a greater degree of joint strategic commissioning between health and social care across England, with local leaders and clinical experts working closely together to both plan and deliver the most appropriate services for their local populations while making efficient use of limited resources.</p><br /><p>We are working closely with the Emergency Care Improvement Programme focusing on the 28 most challenged emergency systems and have embedded four social care professionals within the team to provide specific expertise. From this, eight high impact interventions have been developed which can support local systems in reducing Delayed Transfers of Care.</p><br /><p>Additional resource has been provided to bolster the current sector-led improvement support offer to local authorities, creating a flexible pool of experienced local authority social care experts to provide intensive support to challenged local systems and to deliver action plans designed in consultation with the Directors of Adult Social Services and local NHS colleagues.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/12/2015 13:17:21 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

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

442434

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
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, how the proposed council tax levy for social care will support integration of health and social care.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	902877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to delivering more person-centred care through programmes such as the Better Care Fund, the Integrated Care Pioneers and the Vanguards. The proposed council tax levy gives councils the flexibility to raise additional funds. Councils can also voluntarily invest additional funds in programmes if they wish.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 05/01/2016 17:05:24 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas