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709462

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how he plans for the additional money proposed for adult social care in paragraph 5.5 of the Spring Budget 2017 to be distributed to local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Teresa Pearce
uin	67189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department published the allocations for the additional funding for adult social care announced at the Spring Budget 2017 online on 9 March, together with an Explanatory Note.</p><p>This is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-allocations-of-the-additional-funding-for-adult-social-care" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-allocations-of-the-additional-funding-for-adult-social-care</a>.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 13/03/2017 17:10:03 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4003 label Biography information for Teresa Pearce

708901

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to enable the use of older people's housing equity to contribute to the cost of funding social care.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	66976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>The government will set out proposals in a green paper to put the social care system on a more secure and sustainable long-term footing.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 13/03/2017 14:09:20 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

706661

registered interest
date	01/03/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to audit local authorities to assess what proportion of funding raised specifically through the social care precept is spent on frontline social care.
tabling member constituency	South Suffolk
tabling member printed	James Cartlidge
uin	66127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government is keen to ensure that any money raised by councils using the new flexibility is spent on adult social care. We were clear about this in the consultation document to the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement which was published 15 December which states:</p><p>“To ensure that councils are using income from the precept for adult social care, councils will be required to publish a description of their plans, including changing levels of spend on adult social care and other services. This must be signed off by the Chief Finance Officer (section 151 officer). Councils wishing to use the extra freedom to raise their precept by 3 per cent instead of 2 per cent in 2017-18 must also show how they plan to use this extra money to improve social care.”</p><p>Councils have also been required to publish their returns concerning the social care precept on their websites to ensure local accountability.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 07/03/2017 17:28:28 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge

692654

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect on the funding of adult social care of the reclassification of new homes bonus as an adult social care grant.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	64893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>Local authorities choose how much to spend on social care in their area, drawing on income from local taxes and national grants. The Local Government Finance Settlement confirmed that will provide an additional £240 million to fund adult social care through the Adult Social Care Support Grant in 2017-18, funded by reforms to the New Homes Bonus. This funding will be used to support immediate pressures being experienced by authorities delivering adult social care and will be distributed as a one-off grant allocated according to the adult social care Relative Needs Formula. This is in addition to measures to direct funding to social care announced at the 2015 Spending Review, including the improved Better Care Fund grant, which were partly funded from reforms to the New Homes Bonus.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 01/03/2017 18:03:31 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 36910 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

688267

registered interest
date	09/02/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the increased social care precept on the ability of local authorities to provide adult social care.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL5404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>If all councils make the maximum use of the additional flexibility the Government has offered, this will raise over £1 billion for adult social care in 2017-18. However the social care precept is only one stream of funding for local government which also includes unhypothecated central grant as well as other local taxes and, for 2017-18, the Adult Social Care Support Grant. It is for local government to determine how best to manage its own finances to ensure it delivers the appropriate level of services for its residents.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 23/02/2017 18:00:04 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

684067

registered interest
date	03/02/2017
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 recent assessment he has made of the effect of changes to local authority social care budgets on the demand for health services.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	63025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2017 answer text <p>There is a complex relationship between social care and National Health Service services.</p><p> </p><p>Research indicates that for each additional £1 spent on care homes, hospital expenditure falls by 35p.</p><p> </p><p>There is a twenty-fold difference between the best and the worst performing areas on delayed discharges of care. However, this is not linked to the levels of finance available to localities.</p><p> </p><p>There has been an increase in delayed transfers of care over the past two years. This has resulted in pressure on the availability of hospital beds. However, that should be viewed in the context of the proportion of occupied beds capacity attributable to social care delays increasing by 0.8% between 2014/15 and 2016.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working with the Department on a programme of work to identify a fuller understanding of the linkages between health and social care services.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 10/02/2017 09:22:17 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

682251

registered interest
date	31/01/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answers of 9 January 2017 to Question 58515 and of 18 January 2017 to Question 59298, what plans he has to equalise the payment ratio of new homes bonuses in two-tier local authority areas to help fund social care; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	62435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2017 answer text <p>The Government has reformed the New Homes Bonus, and the distribution of funding specifically for adult social care was set out in the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement on 15 December 2016.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 08/02/2017 16:36:48 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

674763

registered interest
date	18/01/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of amounts raised from the social care precept for local authorities with disproportionate requirements for funding on social care.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	60503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2017 answer text <p>If all councils were to take up the flexibility the Government has offered in relation to the social care precept, it could raise up to £1,023 million in 2017-18 and £1,734 million in 2018-19. However the precept is only one part of the picture. Next year councils will also benefit from the one-off Adult Social Care Support Grant which we propose to distribute based on relative needs, and additional funding comes on-stream through the improved Better Care Fund which rises to £1.5 billion by 2019-20, and will be distributed based on relative need taking into account the ability to raise council tax. Over the four years of the settlement 2016-20, the Government has made available £7.6 million of dedicated funding for adult social care, meaning local government will have access to the funding it needs to increase social care spending every year in this Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 24/01/2017 13:48:29 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

673464

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of revenue to be raised by the social care precept in (a) Southampton, (b) the five poorest local authorities and (c) the five wealthiest local authorities in England in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	59989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2017 answer text <p>I refer to the Department's response to the written question HL4037 answered on 28 December 2016, which sets out the potential revenue raised for all local authorities:</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Lords/2016-12-12/HL4037/" target="_blank">www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Lords/2016-12-12/HL4037/</a></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 02/02/2017 14:44:20 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 31251 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

671689

registered interest
date	11/01/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the adult social care support grant will be allocated to local authorities for 2018-19 on a similar distribution to that of 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	59685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2017 answer text <p>The Adult Social Care Support Grant is a one-off grant available only in 2017-18. However next year councils will also be able to raise the adult social care precept earlier - by up to 3%, and 3% the year after (2018/19), but by no more than 6% over the next three years. This could raise £200m in additional funding for adult social care in 2017-18 and over £400m in 2018-19. Councils will also be benefitting from the increased funding for the Better Care Fund, £105m in 2017-18, £825m in 2018-19 and £1.5bn in 2019-20. An explanation of the distribution of this funding can be found in the Local government finance settlement 2017-18: technical consultation –</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/553819/Post_Publication_-_Draft_Settlement_Summer_Consultation.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/553819/Post_Publication_-_Draft_Settlement_Summer_Consultation.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 18/01/2017 17:37:45 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 30241 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope