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1697069

registered interest
date	19/03/2024
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, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of funding for social care.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	19406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The government has made available up to £8.6bn in additional funding over this financial year and next to support adult social care and discharge. This includes £500m announced in January which has specifically been made available to support local authorities with the cost of social care in 2024-25 in response to representations from local government stakeholders. This funding will enable local authorities to buy more care packages, help people leave hospital on time, improve workforce recruitment and retention, and reduce waiting times for care.</p><p> </p><p>At Spring Budget, the government announced it is investing £165 million over the next 4 years to significantly expand the capacity of the children’s home estate in England, improving outcomes for looked after children and unlocking productivity savings by reducing local government reliance on emergency provision. The government is also exploring further ways to combat profiteering and bring down costs in the children’s care market. This is in addition to the £200 million the government has already committed in response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 27/03/2024 09:22:16 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1694574

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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, whether he made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of increasing funding for (a) social care and (b) the Better Care Fund in the Spring Budget 2024.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	17666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The Chancellor and Chief Secretary hold regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues on spending priorities for fiscal events.</p><p>The government has now made available up to £8.6bn in additional funding over this financial year and next to support adult social care and discharge. This includes £500m announced in January which has specifically been made available to support local authorities with the cost of social care in 2024-25 in response to representations from local government stakeholders. This funding will enable local authorities to buy more care packages, help people leave hospital on time, improve workforce recruitment and retention, and reduce waiting times for care.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 15/03/2024 11:16:12 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1456230

registered interest
date	31/03/2022
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, if his Department will commit to allocating funding for early intervention, such as early help and family support services, to the same level that funding was at in 2010.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	151257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>Local authorities have responsibility for delivering early help and family support services in their area. At the Spending Review, the government provided the largest annual increases in core funding for local authorities in over a decade. To support further investment in vital family help services, the government also increased funding for the Supporting Families programme to nearly £700m, and provided an investment in Start for Life and Family Hub services of more than £300m, over the next three years.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 25/04/2022 13:11:24 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1433732

registered interest
date	21/02/2022
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 percentage of the proposed National Insurance contribution increase will be distributed to local authorities to provide additional support for adult social care.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	126863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government set out its plans for the Health and Social Care Levy and the revenue it will raise in the Autumn Budget and Spending Review document published in October 2021.</p><p> </p><p>For 2022-23, receipts from the Levy will be added to the existing NHS allocation for England, and will go to the NHS or equivalent in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as with the current NHS NICs allocation. From 2023-24 onwards, receipts from the Levy will go to the Department of Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities; NHS England and NHS Improvement; the Department of Health and Social Care; and those responsible for health and social care in the devolved administrations.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will invest an additional £5.4 billion over three years to reform adult social care. This is in addition to the local government settlement at SR21 which set out that local authorities can also make use of over £1 billion of additional resource specifically for social care in 2022-23.</p><p> </p><p>Further detail on the Government plans for adult social care spending can be found in <em>Build Back Better: Our Plan for Health and Social Care</em> and in the recently published white paper, <em>People at the Heart of Care</em>.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 28/02/2022 14:41:55 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1416838

registered interest
date	26/01/2022
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, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a ring-fenced fund to support the provision of local authority social care.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
uin	112719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>The Spending Review provides local authorities with an additional £1.6 billion of grant funding in each of the next three years. The provisional Local Government Finance Settlement for 2022/23 confirmed that local authorities will have access to over £1 billion of additional resources next year specifically for social care. Ultimately, it is for local authorities to manage their budgets within the funding available and prioritise spending based on their own understanding of the needs of their local communities.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 31/01/2022 12:53:30 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1377897

registered interest
date	12/11/2021
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 assessment his Department made of the comparative potential merits of (a) introducing the Health and Social Care Levy and (b) maintaining or increasing other taxes such as the corporation tax surcharge, for the purposes of raising funds for future social care spending.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	73995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>Only a broad-based tax base like Income Tax, VAT or National Insurance contributions (NICs) could raise the sums needed for such a significant investment. A levy charged on the NICs base is the fairest way to raise the funds needed to support health and social care.</p><p> </p><p>The highest earning 15 per cent will pay over half the revenues, and 6.1 million people earning less than £9,880 per annum will be kept out of paying the Levy altogether.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, using NICs as the base ensures businesses will also pay the Levy. Businesses benefit from having a healthy workforce, so it is only fair that they contribute.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 22/11/2021 16:24:18 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1364093

registered interest
date	27/10/2021
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 has taken through his Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 to help local authorities support those in the social care system.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	64668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2021 answer text <p>At the Spending Review it was announced that Government is providing Local Government with £4.8bn of new grant over three years to meet core pressures in social care and other services. In addition to this, if local authorities were to use the full flexibility that we have assumed for the purposes of the Spending Review settlement, they are expected to have access to up to £1.7bn of additional funding over the Spending Review period for adult social care through the ability to increase the adult social care precept by up to 1% each year.</p><p> </p><p>In September the Prime Minister announced the package of reforms to adult social care – funded through the Health and Social Care Levy – which committed the Government to investing an additional £5.4bn in adult social care over the next three years. The Spending Review confirmed that £3.6bn of the £5.4bn will be available for local government to implement comprehensive funding reform of the adult social care system. This funding will also enable local authorities to better sustain their local care markets by moving towards a fairer cost of care.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 01/11/2021 15:50:01 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1358021

registered interest
date	23/09/2021
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, pursuant to the Answer of 20 September 2021 to Question 49949 on Social Services: Finance, how much and what proportion of the £5.4 billion referred to is (a) to pay for the cap of £86,000, (b) towards paying providers a fair rate, (c) additional money for local authorities to pay for care and (d) to be used for any other purposes.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	53831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text As outlined in my response to your written question of September 15<sup>th</sup>, the government will set out its plans for spending across all public services at the Spending Review on October 27<sup>th</sup>. This will include adult social care spending. answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 18/10/2021 13:58:32 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1355705

registered interest
date	15/09/2021
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 refence to the Plan for Health and Social Care, published September 2021, what estimate he has made of the costs of the funding and system reform commitments referred to in paragraph 36 of that Plan over financial years (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25; and if he publish the costs related to the specific commitments in that Plan.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	49949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>In Build Back Better: Our plan for health and social care,<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> the Government set out that £5.4bn in additional funding will be provided to support a sustainable social care system that is fit for the future.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>This funding will end unpredictable care by introducing a cap of £86,000 on the costs of care; and include over £500 million pounds to support the adult social care workforce, in recognition of their tireless efforts during the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>It also includes funding to enable all Local Authorities to move towards paying providers a fair rate for care, which should drive up the quality of adult social care services, improve workforce conditions and increase investment.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The government will set out its plans for spending across all public services at the Spending Review on October 27<sup>th</sup>.</p><p> </p><p>[1]https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1015736/Build_Back_Better-_Our_Plan_for_Health_and_Social_Care.pdf</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 20/09/2021 11:02:50 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

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