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423775

registered interest
date	26/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the additional financial resources needed by local authorities to meet their new duties under the Care Act 2014 in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	13257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2015 answer text <p>The Department’s estimate of the additional financial resources needed by local authorities to meet their new duties under the Care Act 2014 is set out in the Care Act impact assessment, which can be found here:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/23/impacts" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/23/impacts</a></p><br /><p>Page five of the impact assessment has a summary of all estimated costs related to Part 1 of the Care Act 2014 over 10 years from 2015/16. The impact assessment sets out the basis for the estimates in each case.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/11/2015 17:41:39 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

420109

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures his Department is taking to improve social care quality.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	10852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave on 13 October 2015 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-09-16/10428/" target="_blank">10428</a>.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/10/2015 14:32:18 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

388822

registered interest
date	09/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to ensure provision of social care for non self-pay service users in the event of systemic failure in the social care market.
tabling member printed	Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top
uin	HL1299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>It is important that there is a vibrant market of local care and support providers offering a choice of high quality services that are able to adapt over time to meet changing needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Care Act introduces new duties on local authorities to promote their local market, with a particular focus on quality, diversity and sustainability. The Government recognises that local authorities’ own commissioning is likely to be their most important tool for facilitating their markets. The Government has worked with the Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) to co-produce material to help local authorities promote their local markets and improve their own commissioning.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ultimately, local authorities remain locally accountable for how their budgets are allocated, including spend on care and support. However, the Care Act is clear that prices agreed with care providers will have to reflect the new duties outlined above in relation to the promotion of sustainability of the overall market. The Government recently published statutory guidance setting out how local authorities should meet these new duties when commissioning, including the consideration of the actual costs of care and support when negotiating fee levels. A copy of the guidance is attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>More widely, as in any market, provider exits and entries are inevitable. Where continuity of care is at risk because a provider’s business has failed, local authorities must temporarily step in to ensure an individual’s needs continue to be met, including the needs of both those that are self- and state-funded. In order to help local authorities respond to potential situations where a provider is particularly large or geographically concentrated, and where an individual local authority may struggle to carry out this duty on its own, the Government has created a new market oversight function which will be carried out by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The CQC will act to oversee the finance of specified providers with a view to providing local authorities with early warning of financial failure and to ensure effective contingency plans can be put in place.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has also commissioned the ADASS to publish guidance for local authorities to assist them in developing contingency plans for managing provider failure which should be available by summer 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/07/2015 16:33:41 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Care Act guidance.pdf title Care Act Guidance
tabling member	4150 label Biography information for Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top

386554

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to impose a time limit for local councils to undertake care and support assessments following a referral.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	4789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government does not intend to impose such a time limit. The Care Act 2014 places a duty on local authorities to carry out a needs assessment on any adult with an appearance of having care and support needs, and any carer with the need for support. Local authorities are under a general duty to carry out their functions in a timely manner, and this includes when they should start an assessment following initial contact from the adult or after a referral.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Assessments can take different periods of time to undertake depending on the needs of the adult and their ability to be involved in the assessment. To ensure that assessments are carried out in a manner that is suitable to the adult, the Care and Support (Assessment) Regulations 2014 requires all assessments to be carried out in in an appropriate and proportionate manner and have regard to:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) the wishes and preferences of the individual;</p><p> </p><p>(b) the outcomes the individual seeks from the assessment; and</p><p> </p><p>(c) the severity and overall extent of the individual’s needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Care Act statutory guidance clarifies that “an assessment should be carried out over an appropriate and reasonable timescale taking into account the urgency of needs and a consideration of any fluctuation in those needs. Local authorities should inform the individual of an indicative timescale over which their assessment will be conducted and keep the person informed throughout the process”.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 4828 question first answered 08/07/2015 13:33:24 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

386559

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues to local authorities on the length of time a care and support assessment following a referral should take.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	4828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government does not intend to impose such a time limit. The Care Act 2014 places a duty on local authorities to carry out a needs assessment on any adult with an appearance of having care and support needs, and any carer with the need for support. Local authorities are under a general duty to carry out their functions in a timely manner, and this includes when they should start an assessment following initial contact from the adult or after a referral.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Assessments can take different periods of time to undertake depending on the needs of the adult and their ability to be involved in the assessment. To ensure that assessments are carried out in a manner that is suitable to the adult, the Care and Support (Assessment) Regulations 2014 requires all assessments to be carried out in in an appropriate and proportionate manner and have regard to:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) the wishes and preferences of the individual;</p><p> </p><p>(b) the outcomes the individual seeks from the assessment; and</p><p> </p><p>(c) the severity and overall extent of the individual’s needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Care Act statutory guidance clarifies that “an assessment should be carried out over an appropriate and reasonable timescale taking into account the urgency of needs and a consideration of any fluctuation in those needs. Local authorities should inform the individual of an indicative timescale over which their assessment will be conducted and keep the person informed throughout the process”.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 4789 question first answered 08/07/2015 13:33:24 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

381125

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to page 11 of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services annual budget survey, published on 4 June 2015, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policy of the findings that seven per cent of directors who responded to that survey are fully confident that planned savings can be met in 2016-17 and that a smaller proportion of directors is so confident in respect of 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	2452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>Funding decisions for 2016/17 onwards, including on adult social care, are subject to the forthcoming Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department will continue to work closely with local government and the National Health Service to understand future funding requirements, including continuing scope and opportunities to make savings, to support decisions relating to the upcoming Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 23/06/2015 10:41:00 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

349992

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure the quality of social work services provided to local authorities by outsourced bodies.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	2100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for ensuring the quality of all their children’s social care functions, and remain accountable for the quality of all such provision should they choose to delegate such functions to a third party provider. Ofsted inspect all local authority provision, including any providers to which functions are delegated. The Secretary of State for Education can, and does, intervene using her discretionary powers under the Education Act 1996 (as applied by section 50 of the Children Act 2004), should any such provision fall below expected standards.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 16/06/2015 15:26:05 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

227734

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
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
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 spending on adult social care in (a) Dorset, (b) Poole, (c) Bournemouth, (d) Hampshire, (e) Isle of Wight, (f) West Sussex, (g) Bracknell Forest, (h) Reading, (i) Slough, (j) West Berkshire, (k) Windsor and Maidenhead, (l) Wokingham, (m) Oxfordshire, (n) Wiltshire and (o) Swindon local authority areas in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
uin	227764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>Spending figures can be found in the revenue outturn returns published on the Local Authority Revenue Expenditure and Financing tables on gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p>Despite the need to pay off the deficit left by the last Labour Government, net current expenditure on social care has increased from £20.962 billion in 2009-10 to £22.089 billion in 2014-15 (budget).</p><p> </p><p>Government initiatives like the Better Care Fund are joining up the NHS and social care, so savings can be delivered through joint working and outcomes improved.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 228169 question first answered 25/03/2015 17:40:41 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins previous answer version 51963 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

227159

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department plans to take to monitor whether care assessments carried out under the Care Act 2014 include consideration of any companion animals.
tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
tabling member printed	Tracey Crouch
uin	227484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>Under the duty to promote well-being in the Care Act, which applies to all care and support functions in the Act, people’s well-being, including emotional well-being and the outcomes that matter to them, must be taken into consideration by local authorities when undertaking an assessment of their needs. This may incorporate an individual’s feelings and wishes about keeping a companion animal, where relevant.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 17/03/2015 17:18:39 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch

179625

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of trends in levels of eligibility for social care set by councils between 2005 and 2010.
tabling member constituency	Meon Valley
tabling member printed	George Hollingbery
uin	224385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>During 2005/06 to 2009/10, the number of councils which set their local eligibility at the “substantial” banding within the existing guidance increased by nearly a third, and the number of councils setting their eligibility at “moderate” decreased by a similar proportion. This indicates councils making restrictions in access and eligibility over this period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following table sets out the percentage of councils in each of the bandings between 2005/06 and 2009/10. The bandings were set out in 2003 guidance and updated in 2010 by <em>Prioritising Need in the Context of Putting People First: A whole system approach to eligibility for social care, </em>which retained the same eligibility framework based on four bandings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>Percentage of LAs at Critical</p></td><td><p>Percentage of LAs at Substantial</p></td><td><p>Percentage of LAs at Moderate</p></td><td><p>Percentage of LAs at Low</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/06</p></td><td><p>2.2%</p></td><td><p>55.0%</p></td><td><p>36.7%</p></td><td><p>6.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td><p>1.4%</p></td><td><p>62.2%</p></td><td><p>33.2%</p></td><td><p>3.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td><td><p>69.7%</p></td><td><p>26.5%</p></td><td><p>1.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td><td><p>70.5%</p></td><td><p>25.7%</p></td><td><p>1.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2.0%</p></td><td><p>71.1%</p></td><td><p>25.0%</p></td><td><p>2.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> The Care Quality Commission. This is provided as % as the total number of local authorities (LAs) providing social care changed over this period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To resolve substantial and longstanding concerns from people with care needs that the existing framework is opaque and not applied consistently across England, the Government is introducing a national minimum eligibility threshold for adult care and support from 1 April 2015. This will provide more clarity on what level of needs are eligible for care and support. LAs will no longer be able to tighten the criteria beyond this threshold, but they will have the flexibility to meet other needs that are not eligible, if they chose to do so.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 24/02/2015 13:50:07 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery