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1229232

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
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 is taking to ensure that local authorities with social care responsibilities will receive funding increases commensurate with any inflationary pressures in the sector.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	81642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government completed an Impact Assessment for the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2020: Introduction of the Health and Care Visa, IA number HO0369.</p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor has written to Secretaries of State to launch the Comprehensive Spending Review. This is a multi-year Spending Review, setting resource budgets for three years (21-22 to 23-24) and capital budgets for four years (21-22 to 24-25) to set direction and firm budgets for the duration of the parliament. Any local government funding decisions, including decisions about social care workforce funding, will be taken as part of this Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay grouped question UIN 81641 question first answered 07/09/2020 13:12:32 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1226520

registered interest
date	20/07/2020
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timetable is for concluding cross-party discussions on long-term funding for social care reform to enable the publication of the Green Paper on social care.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	76762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2020 answer text <p>The Government’s number one priority for adult social care is for everyone who relies on care to get the care they need throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p>We are committed to bringing forward a plan for social care to ensure that everyone is treated with dignity and respect and to find long term solutions for one of the biggest challenges we face as a society. There are complex questions to address and it is important that we give these issues our full consideration in the light of current circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 04/08/2020 15:24:35 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1218009

registered interest
date	25/06/2020
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to put in place a comprehensive new spending package for the social care sector; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	64977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>We have provided councils with access to an additional £1.5 billion for adults and children’s social care in 2020/21 on top of maintaining £2.5 billion of existing social care grants. This will support local authorities to meet rising demand and continue to stabilise the social care system.</p><p>This includes an additional £1 billion of grant funding for adults and children’s social care, and a 2% precept that enables councils to access a further £500 million for adult social care.</p><p>The additional funding for social care was part of a Local Government Finance Settlement that increased Core Spending Power by 4.4% in real terms, the largest year on year real terms increase in a decade.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 15/07/2020 11:51:02 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 33578 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1218042

registered interest
date	25/06/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, 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 Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect on the social care sector of local authority insolvency; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	64829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2020 answer text <p>We have made £3.7 billion available to local authorities through an un-ringfenced grant so they can address pressures they are facing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including expenditure pressures from adult social care. This includes £500 million of additional funding announced by the Secretary of State on 2 July.</p><p>Over 90 per cent of the funding announced in March and April has been allocated to councils with responsibility for social care services; allocations of the latest tranche of £500 million will be shared in due course. Local authorities have also received £600 million through the Infection Control Fund to pass on to social care providers.</p><p>The Department recognises the additional costs and pressures on finances councils are facing as a result of the current Covid-19 crisis. We continue to engage regularly with the local government sector, which includes our ongoing financial monitoring survey and direct contact with councils and their representatives, local Leaders and Chief Executives. We have also worked closely with CIPFA who have temporarily amended their guidance on the use of section 114 notices to further encourage local authorities to make contact with the Department in the first instance to advise of any immediate financial concerns.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 03/07/2020 13:05:31 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1217593

registered interest
date	24/06/2020
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the potential merits of allocating additional investment to adult social care to support his proposals to revitalise the economy.
tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
tabling member printed	Tracey Crouch
uin	64134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2020 answer text <p>We have now made £3.7 billion available to local authorities so they can address pressures on local services caused by the pandemic, including in adult social care. On 15 May we published details of an additional £600 million Infection Control Fund for Adult Social Care. The Government will continue to monitor pressures in the National Health Service and local government and will keep future funding under review.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to bringing forward a plan for social care to ensure that everyone is treated with dignity and respect and to find long term solutions for one of the biggest challenges we face as a society.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 23/07/2020 09:21:55 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch

1196657

registered interest
date	18/05/2020
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on potential long-term sustainable funding solutions for adult social care to inform the Comprehensive Spending Review 2020.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	48518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2020 answer text <p>At the 2019 Spending Round we announced that we would be providing councils with access to an additional £1.5 billion for adult and children’s social care in 2020/21 on top of maintaining £2.5 billion of existing social care grants and will support local authorities to meet rising demand and continue to stabilise the social care system.</p><p>This includes an additional £1 billion of grant funding for adults and children’s social care, and a 2% precept that enables councils to access a further £500 million for adult social care.</p><p>We have now made £3.2 billion available to local authorities so they can address pressures on local services caused by COVID-19, including in adult social care. On 15 May we published details of an additional £600 million Infection Control Fund for Adult Social Care.</p><p>Future funding for social care will be set out at the next Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/05/2020 12:03:28 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1182885

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, 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 any shortfall in the collection of the adult social care precept in two-tier areas, for which county councils can calculate the extra two per cent on their proportion of the overall council tax, compared with unitary authorities, which can calculate the extra two per cent on their total tax level; and what is their assessment of the amount of any such shortfall in two-tier areas per person and per authority compared with unitary authorities.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL2208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises the pressures on councils in providing social care. The Secretary of State recently confirmed that the adult social care precept would continue in 2020-21, giving councils access to an additional £500 million. The recent local government finance settlement also provided local government with an additional £1 billion of grant funding for both adult and children’s social care.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown question first answered 16/03/2020 16:57:28 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

1181732

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee's seventh report of Session 2017-19, Social care funding: time to end a national scandal, published on 4 July 2019, HL Paper 392, if he will make it his policy to allocate an additional £8 billion of funding per year to adult social care.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	23432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2020 answer text <p>Putting social care on a sustainable footing, where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, is one of the biggest challenges we face as a society.</p><p>The Government is providing councils with access to an additional £1.5 billion for adults and children’s social care in 2020/21. This includes an additional £1 billion of grant funding for adults and children’s social care, and a proposed 2% precept that will enable councils to access a further £500 million for adult social care.</p><p>This £1.5 billion is on top of maintaining £2.5 billion of existing social care grants and will support local authorities to meet rising demand and continue to stabilise the social care system.</p><p>Future funding for social care will be set out at the next spending review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 05/03/2020 12:02:13 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1174117

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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 Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to stabilise the funding of the adult social care sector in England in order to enable the agreement of a long-term funding plan for that sector.
tabling member printed	Lord Warner
uin	HL888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2020 answer text <p>We are providing councils with access to an additional £1.5 billion for adults and children’s social care in 2020/21. This includes an additional £1 billion of grant funding for adults and children’s social care, and a proposed 2% precept that will enables councils to access a further £500 million for adult social care. This £1.5 billion is on top of maintaining £2.5 billion of existing social care grants and will support local authorities to meet rising demand and continue to stabilise the social care system.</p><p>Putting social care on a sustainable footing, where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, is one of the biggest challenges we face as a society. The Government will bring forward a plan for social care this year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 06/02/2020 17:17:45 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

1173543

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the £1 billion in additional funding allocated to children's and adult social care will be divided between (a) children's and (b) adult social care in each local authority in England.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	8318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The additional £1 billion grant for adults and children’s social care, and the continuing £410 million social care grant, can be used flexibly by local authorities to deliver both adults and children's social care based on local priorities.</p><p>Local councils understand the needs of their communities’ best and it is important that they have the freedom and flexibility to manage those needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 30/01/2020 17:20:03 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner