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1696862

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has held discussions with adult social care providers on potential future risks to the local financing of the provision of care.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Mark Eastwood
uin	19216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>Through the Local Government Finance Settlement for 2024-25, we are providing over £1.5 billion in additional grant for social care compared to 2023-24. This is part of an above-inflation increase in Core Spending Power for local government from 2023-24 of up to £4.5 billion, or 7.5% in cash terms.</p><p>Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations are published on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency North Dorset answering member printed Simon Hoare grouped question UIN 19217 question first answered 26/03/2024 13:57:59 answering member 4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare
tabling member	4807 label Biography information for Mark Eastwood

1689864

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to reform the funding system for the delivery of adult social care by local councils.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	14486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>In 2022, the Government confirmed reforms to the funding formula would not be implemented in this spending review after hearing calls from councils for stability. The Government remains committed to improving the local government finance landscape.</p> answering member constituency North Dorset answering member printed Simon Hoare question first answered 23/02/2024 16:04:01 answering member 4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1642523

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Social Care Grant.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	188314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring tax payers money is spent effectively. All departmental expenditure is made in line with the principles set out in Managing Public Money and the Green Book, and we regularly consider the performance of programmes to ensure they are delivering for communities across the country.</p><p>Also, in November 2022, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities published its first <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fdluhc-evaluation-strategy%2Fdluhc-evaluation-strategy&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cb9ab54dde080460eb60d08db6cc33ef4%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638223358040578190%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=qVg5NZ%2BSEs9z2MC%2FjPT41DVWQnBcqtrvXt1o1ykDoIQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">evaluation strategy</a>, which sets out our commitment to undertake and learn from evaluation activity across our policy areas. It outlines evaluation activity that is already underway and future plans. The annexes provide a list of ongoing and planned work, as well as a list of published evaluations. In addition, we are listing all new commissioned research projects, from January 2023 on gov.uk website, and aim to publish completed research outputs promptly on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 188309 188310 188312 188565 188566 188567 188568 188569 188570 188571 188572 188573 188574 188575 188576 188577 188578 188579 188580 188581 question first answered 14/06/2023 16:26:51 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1605673

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has held with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on long-term funding for social care.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	169499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>In line with the practice of successive administrations, details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 28/03/2023 15:14:51 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1522610

registered interest
date	14/10/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if she will take steps to ensure any change to the funding of local authorities does not include a reduction in funding for adult social care.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	63338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>Local authorities can make use of over £1 billion of additional resource specifically for social care in 2022/23. This includes an increase in the Social Care Grant, the improved Better Care Fund, a 1% adult social care precept, and deferred flexibilities from last year's settlement. A further £162 million is being provided to enable local authorities to move towards paying providers a fair cost of care. <br> <br> For many councils, adults’ social care is a key priority and one of the largest areas of spending. The Local Government Finance Settlement makes available £54.1 billion in 2022/23 for local government in England, an increase of up to £3.7 billion on 2021/22</p><p><br> Councils are not expected to rely solely on social care-specific funding to meet adult social care pressures; they also have access to funding from un-ringfenced grants, including the 2022/23 Services Grant worth £822 million, and from council tax</p><p><br> On 22 September we also announced a £500 million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund to speed up the safe discharge of people from hospitals and into social care support. <br> <br> We are working closely with the sector, as we always do, to understand what the impact of cost and demand pressures will be on service delivery and budgets. <br> <br> Our intention is to publish the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement as soon as is reasonably possible this winter.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 24/10/2022 15:43:16 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1522611

registered interest
date	14/10/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will take steps to provide additional funding to local authorities to help support social care providers at risk of closure due to increasing (a) energy and (b) other operational costs.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	63339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to working with local authorities to manage the pressures of inflation on adult social care.</p><p>Through the new Energy Bill Relief Scheme, the Government is acting to provide a price reduction to ensure that all businesses and other non-domestic customers, such as social care providers, are protected from excessively high energy bills over the winter period. The price reduction will run initially for 6 months covering energy use from 1 October 2022 until 31 March 2023.</p><p>The Government has announced a £500 million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund to speed up the safe discharge of people from hospitals into social care support. A full announcement will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 24/10/2022 15:43:47 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1439188

registered interest
date	09/03/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to restore funding for (a) early help, (b) family support and (c) other early intervention services to pre-austerity levels.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	137311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2022 answer text <p>Children’s social care in Northern Ireland is a transferred power, making it a devolved matter. This answer reflects the position in England. The 2021 Spending Review and Local Government Finance Settlement makes available £54.1 billion for 2022/23 for local government in England, an increase of up to £3.7 billion on 2021/22. This significant investment is largely un-ringfenced in recognition that local leaders know the priorities for their local communities best. The Government has also provided an additional £200 million for Supporting Families. This represents around a 40% real-terms uplift in funding for the programme by 2024-25, taking total planned investment across the next three years to £695 million. This significant investment into early help services comes in advance of Josh MacAlister’s independent review of children’s social care, which will report in the Spring. The Government will consider any recommendations carefully.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 18/03/2022 14:43:37 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1416512

registered interest
date	25/01/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of on local authority funding to meet the demands of (a) child and (b) adult social care; and what steps is he taking to tackle any potential shortfall.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	111638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2022 answer text <p>The 2022/23 provisional Local Government Finance Settlement makes available an additional £3.5 billion to councils. This is an increase in local authority funding for 2022/23 of over 4% in real terms, which will ensure councils across the country have the resources they need to deliver key services, including Adult and Children's Social Care.</p><p>Local authorities can make use of over £1 billion of additional resource specifically for social care in 2022/23. This includes:</p><ul><li>£636 million more into the Social Care Grant, including funding for equalisation against the 1% Adult Social Care precept;</li><li>£63 million into the improved Better Care Fund, providing an inflationary uplift to support integrated working with the NHS, and;</li><li>a 1% Adult Social Care precept and deferred flexibilities from last year's settlement.</li></ul><p>On top of this funding to address core pressures, £162 million in adult social care reform funding will be allocated in 2022/23 to support local authorities as they prepare their markets for adult social care reform and to help move towards paying a fair cost of care.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 111637 question first answered 28/01/2022 14:53:08 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1361330

registered interest
date	19/10/2021
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the finding of the Institute for Public Policy Research, published on 3 September 2021, that long term social care expenditure is £5,300 per person lower in the North East than across England as a whole, what steps he is taking to ensure that long term social care expenditure per person is equally distributed among regions.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	58848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>We are committed to making sure councils continue to get the support they need to maintain key services and build back better after the pandemic. The Spending Review will be the opportunity to consider local government's future funding needs, including social care expenditure. We are committed to the delivery of world-leading health and social care across the whole of the UK, and our 7 September 2021 announcement of £5.4 billion of investment over three years marked an important step on the journey to reform adult social care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 25/10/2021 13:40:00 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 26320 answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1355523

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent estimate his Department has made of the Social Care Support Grant allocation that will need to be made to local authorities in England to pay towards social care in each of the next three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	49104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2021 answer text <p>Government recently announced an investment of £5.4 billion across three years to deliver funding and system reform to adult social care. This will end the risk of unpredictable care costs through charging reform and enable local authorities to move towards paying providers a fair rate for care. It also includes at least £500 million of funding to support the adult social care workforce to professionalise, develop, and access mental health and wellbeing resources.</p><p>This is in addition to the support provided through the social care precept and other government grants including the Social Care Grant. Following the conclusion of the 2021 Spending Review, we will consult on the proposed allocation of the Social Care Grant to local authorities in England, through the Local Government Finance Settlement<em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 22/09/2021 16:47:00 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord