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1683938

registered interest
date	22/01/2024
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how much the National Living Wage increase for 2024–25 will cost councils and providers with responsibility for adult social care; and the impact of this increase on market stability in the adult social care sector, especially in areas with a higher proportion of state-funded care users.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department of Health and Social Care carries out regular exercises to assess the financial pressures facing councils and adult social care providers. These assessments account for a wide range of pressures, including changes to the National Living Wage, and these are shared with HM Treasury and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and are used to inform decisions on the overall funding available to local government.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL1790 question first answered 05/02/2024 12:07:51 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1683939

registered interest
date	22/01/2024
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what burdens or impact assessments they have undertaken into the impact of the National Living Wage increases for 2024–25 on (1) councils with adult social care responsibility, and (2) care providers.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department of Health and Social Care carries out regular exercises to assess the financial pressures facing councils and adult social care providers. These assessments account for a wide range of pressures, including changes to the National Living Wage, and these are shared with HM Treasury and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and are used to inform decisions on the overall funding available to local government.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL1789 question first answered 05/02/2024 12:07:51 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1654157

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: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many applications for social care have been assessed for need and have been funded after having been means tested in each of the past 10 years.
tabling member printed	Lord Turnberg
uin	HL9474
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 HL9472 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

1645498

registered interest
date	19/06/2023
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: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take, if any, to increase funding for social care.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones
uin	HL8599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government has already provided a historic increase in funding for social care. The Government announced at the Autumn Statement that up to £7.5 billion of additional funding would be available for Adult Social Care and discharge over the next two years. This historic funding boost should put the adult social care system on a stronger financial footing and help local authorities address waiting lists, low fee rates, and workforce pressures in the sector. We will keep working closely with local authorities and the adult social care sector to understand current pressures on service delivery and budgets.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 22/06/2023 16:49:12 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	530 label Biography information for Lord Jones

1605055

registered interest
date	16/03/2023
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to provide a fully funded plan (1) to meet the needs of (a) older, and (b) disabled, people and their carers, and (2) to address the staffing crisis in social care.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL6586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 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. This historic funding boost will ensure that local authorities can continue to meet the eligible care and support needs of people in their area and deliver tangible improvements to social care services.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to the 10 year vision set out in the People at the Heart of Care white paper, which covers older and disabled people and their carers. We will shortly publish a plan for adult social care system reform. The plan will build on the progress made so far to implement the 10 year vision set out in the People at the Heart of Care white paper.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 27/03/2023 11:54:11 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1603391

registered interest
date	13/03/2023
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether budgets for adult social care for 2023–23 and 2023–24 were adjusted to take account of (1) increased energy and fuel costs, and (2) the need to make greater use of agency staff due to high vacancy rates.
tabling member printed	Lord Warner
uin	HL6434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2023 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for setting budgets for adult social care. They are best placed to assess local resources and need. The funding we have made available gives them the flexibility to do so in their local budgets.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 24/03/2023 13:37:53 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

1588421

registered interest
date	22/02/2023
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: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether integrated care boards are able to spend a proportion of the £250 million, allocated by the Chancellor to accelerate hospital discharge, on social care projects (1) to increase capacity in the community, and (2) to fund extra care beds.
tabling member printed	Baroness Andrews
uin	HL5787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2023 answer text <p>The £200 million announced on 9 January 2023 is specifically for funding short-term National Health Service step-down care packages and is being used to purchase a maximum of four weeks bedded care per patient. Integrated care boards, working closely with local authorities, are using this to purchase places in care homes and other settings, such as hospices, as well as to help fund wrap-around primary and community health services to support patients’ recovery. The £50 million capital, also announced on 9 January 2023, is targeted at projects that can make an immediate impact on reducing the winter crisis. This includes creating greater capacity in discharge lounges to improve patient discharge and hospital flow, as well as other options such as ambulance hubs.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 28/02/2023 17:25:57 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2534 label Biography information for Baroness Andrews

1581421

registered interest
date	26/01/2023
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the analysis by the Local Government Association that £13 billion needs to be delivered into social care so that councils can deliver on all their statutory duties so that (1) people of all ages can live an equal life, and (2) the need for hospital treatment is reduced.
tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
uin	HL5153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>Whilst we have not made a specific analysis of the figure referenced by the Local Government Association, we have assessed the level of funding made available to local authorities for this purpose through the Autumn Statement delivered on 17 November 2022. The Government is providing up to £7.5 billion of additional funding over two years to support adult social care and discharge, which represents a higher than real terms increase and will enable local authorities to deliver tangible improvements in adult social care services. These improvements aim to address discharge delays, social care waiting times, low fee rates, and workforce pressures.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 02/02/2023 16:54:21 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

1549159

registered interest
date	06/12/2022
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 1 December (HL3582), whether the clarification by Lord Markham on 24 November (HL Deb col 1469) is the most up-to-date answer to this question.
tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
uin	HL4046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2022 answer text <p>The answer provided to the Noble Lord on 1 December is the most recent information.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 14/12/2022 11:50:47 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

1543821

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, following the Chancellor of the Exchequer's autumn statement on 17 November, whether they will provide a breakdown of the funding available for social care in England in the years (1) 2023, (2) 2024, and (3) 2025, and how much of this funding will be provided by (a) central government, and (b) local authorities from council tax.
tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
uin	HL3582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>Up to an additional £2.8 billion will be available for social care in 2023/24 and £4.7 billion in 2024/25. This is further to previous grant funding agreed at the Spending Review 2021. We are also providing £500 million in winter 2022/23 to support local areas to accelerate safe discharge from hospital. Funding available for social care in England beyond 2024/25 will be determined at a future Spending Review.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 01/12/2022 12:19:26 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett