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718220

	registered interest
	date	06/04/2017
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the allocation of £2 billion of new money for adult social care to be released by 2019–20, what steps they will take to ensure that (1) local government, and (2) representatives of local government, are fully engaged in the preparation of the Green Paper on the funding of adult social care, so that that those responsible for social care locally are able to contribute to the creation of long-term solutions.
	tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
	uin	HL6720
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Following the announcement of the General Election on 8 June, decisions on the future reform and funding of adult social care will be taken by the new Government.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL6721 question first answered 24/04/2017 11:47:47 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

718221

	registered interest
	date	06/04/2017
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what will be the terms of reference for the Green Paper on the funding of adult social care; whether those terms of reference will include all adults who require social care; and when they expect to launch the consultation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
	uin	HL6721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Following the announcement of the General Election on 8 June, decisions on the future reform and funding of adult social care will be taken by the new Government.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL6720 question first answered 24/04/2017 11:47:47 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

938831

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	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, in preparing the forthcoming Green Paper on the future funding of adult social care, whether more emphasis will be placed on giving people greater control over the care they receive, and making paying for social care fairer and less dependent on the illness a person contracts.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
	uin	HL9447
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The Green Paper on Care and Support will include a focus on the principles of whole-person, integrated care and giving people receiving support the highest possible control.</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone has access to the care and support they need, but we are clear that there should continue to be a principle of shared responsibility, and that people should continue to expect to contribute to their care as part of preparing for later life.</p><p>The Green Paper will bring forward ideas for including an element of risk pooling in the system, which will help to protect people from the highest costs. This will include proposals to place a limit on the care costs individuals face.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 23/07/2018 14:06:07 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

938832

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	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, in preparing the forthcoming Green Paper on the future funding of adult social care, whether emphasis will be placed on personalised preventative medicine and Screening Saves Lives; and what plans they have to reduce the screening age from 60 to 50 years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
	uin	HL9448
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The Green Paper on care and support will primarily focus on social care for older adults.</p><p>In terms of personalised preventative medicine, NHS England introduced the general practitioner contract in 2017/18. This aims to support people to live well for longer, through identifying patients who may be living with frailty and ensuring that they have access to the key evidence-based interventions including a falls assessment and medications review.</p><p>The Government is committed to providing well-managed screening programmes that are introduced following a robust process using peer reviewed evidence. The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) advises ministers and the National Health Service in all four countries about all aspects of screening policy and supports implementation. The national cancer screening programmes in England include adult cancer screening programmes for cervical, breast and bowel cancer with varying age parameters, and any changes made to existing screening programmes will follow the UK NSC’s published evidence review process.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 23/07/2018 14:08:21 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

850568

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	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, further to the Written Answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 31 January (HL5313), whether the funding that was set aside to implement the cap on care costs and other adult social care reforms will be released to local government immediately following publication of the Social Care Green Paper; and when an announcement on changes to spending decisions is expected.
	tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
	uin	HL5912
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>As stated in my earlier answer to Written Question HL5313, any decisions on funding will be set out in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 12/03/2018 16:31:15 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

928189

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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 when they plan to announce the funding available for adult social care spending in (1) 2019–20, and (2) 2020–21.
	tabling member printed	Lord Warner
	uin	HL8841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>2019-20 falls within the current Spending Review period, announced in 2015. Over the course of the Spending Review, the Government has given councils access to up to £9.4 billion more dedicated funding Government for social care over the three years from 2017/18 to 2019/20. In 2019/20, approximately £1.835 billion is provided by the Improved Better Care Fund and access to approximately £1.8 billion is provided by the Adult Social Care Precept.</p><p>Individual councils are responsible for setting their budgets and dedicating funding to specific services, and in doing this will assess what is required to meet the social care need of their local populations, and more widely to fulfil their statutory duties under the Care Act 2014.</p><p>The funding settlement for years beyond 2019-20 is a matter to be confirmed at the next Spending Review, alongside the rest of the local government settlement, which will take place next year.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 03/07/2018 11:18:39 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

806365

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2017
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to meet the pressures on local authority children's services and adult social care identified by the Office for Budget Responsibility in its November 2017 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.
	tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
	uin	HL4163
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Education (DfE) has responsibility for local authority children’s services.</p><p> </p><p>The Spending Review 2015 made available more than £200 billion to councils for local services (including children’s services) up to 2019-20. Local authorities (LAs) increased spending on children and young people’s services to around £9.2 billion in 2016-17.</p><p> </p><p>To help the children’s social care sector innovate and re-design service delivery to achieve high quality and value for money, DfE has invested £200 million since 2014 in its Innovation Programme and Partners in Practice Programme. As part of this, DfE have committed £20 million to provide additional support to LAs where the risk of service failure is highest.</p><p> </p><p>At the 2017 spring budget the Chancellor announced an additional £2 billion will be given to councils over the next three years for adult social care. This meant that, by the start of this financial year, the Government had given councils access to £9.25 billion more dedicated funding for adult social care over the next three years.</p><p> </p><p>The 2017 autumn Budget has provided an additional £42 million for the Disabled Facilities Grant for the rest of the 2017-18 financial year, taking funding for this year to £473 million.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 20/12/2017 13:40:01 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

845363

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	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 steps they are taking to close the projected £2.3 billion funding gap in adult social care by 2020 as forecast by the Local Government Association.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
	uin	HL5563
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>The Budget in March 2017 announced an additional £2 billion to be given to councils over the three years from 2017/18 for social care. More recently the local government finance settlement announced a further £150 million for social care.</p><p>This additional funding means that Government has given councils access to up to £9.4 billion more dedicated funding for social care over the three years from 2017/18. Overall, councils are able to increase spending on adult social care in real terms in each of the next three years.</p><p>The Government has set out plans to publish a green paper by summer 2018 presenting its proposals to reform care and support for older people.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL5564 question first answered 05/03/2018 17:46:16 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

846651

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	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 representations they have received from (1) local authorities, (2) carer organisations, (3) private providers, and (4) affected individuals, regarding the funding of adult social care.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
	uin	HL5706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>The additional £150 million for the Adult Social Care Support Grant in 2018/19 has been provided as a further resource for local authorities to support the care market in their areas.</p><p>We are in regular contact with stakeholders in the sector including national representation from the Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, as well as local authorities and providers, on a wide range of issues.</p><p>We are inviting representation from all interested parties on the upcoming Green Paper and will be holding further roundtables and consultation throughout the year.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL5705 question first answered 06/03/2018 15:18:19 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

995640

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2018
	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 allocate additional funding to adult social care in the next financial year.
	tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
	uin	HL11065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has announced a further £650 million of new money for social care for 2019-20.</p><p>The funding is in two parts:</p><p>- An additional £240 million in 2019-20 for adult social care to alleviate winter pressures on the National Health Service; and</p><p>- A further £410 million in 2019-20 to improve social care for older people, people with disabilities and children.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 05/11/2018 15:24:52 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding