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1670681

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2023
	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 she has made of the adequacy of funding of (a) adult and (b) children's social care; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes in the level of funding on those sectors.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	2356
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>The Department of Health and Social Care carries out regular exercises to assess the financial pressures facing adult social care. These assessments account for a wide range of pressures, such as inflation, National Living Wage increases and demographic changes. The Department of Health and Social Care continuously works closely with local authorities and the adult social care sector to understand what the impact of cost and demand pressures will be on service delivery.</p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care’s assessment of financial pressures is shared with HM Treasury and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and used to inform decisions on the overall funding available to local government. Since the Spending Review the Government has made available up to £8.1 billion in additional funding over two years to support adult social care and discharge, including an additional £570 million announced in July 2023. This will put the adult social care system on a stronger financial footing and improve the quality of and access to care.</p><p>As the Department for Education is responsible for children’s social care, the Department of Health and Social Care has made no assessment of its funding adequacy.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 22/11/2023 17:02:56 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1665741

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2023
	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 steps he plans to take to allocate remaining funding from the People at the Heart of Care funding for adult social care reform.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	203360
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 26/10/2023 10:42:04 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1663415

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	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 policy paper entitled 2023 to 2025 Better Care Fund policy framework, published on 5 April 2023, how his Department is using the additional £1.6 billion funding for the discharge of hospital patients into social care.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	201269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>The 2023 to 2025 Better Care Fund policy framework allows areas to plan more strategically over a longer period. We have committed at least £16.8 billion to improve discharge, as well as reduce pressure on urgent and emergency care, social care, intermediate care, unpaid carers and housing. This includes an extra £600 million in 2023/24 and £1 billion in 2024/25 allocated via the Discharge Fund to local authorities and integrated care boards. They have the flexibility to spend this in ways they deem most appropriate to assist local areas in freeing up the maximum number of hospital beds and reducing bed days lost through, for example, short-term packages of care, community-based reablement capacity or building the workforce capacity needed to continue to support care users.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 24/10/2023 14:35:05 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1661960

	registered interest
	date	19/09/2023
	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 he has made of the adequacy of funding allocated for social care.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	200471
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>The Department regularly monitors the financial pressures facing the adult social care system and works closely with the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and HM Treasury to ensure funding meets the needs of the sector. At the Autumn Statement we made available up to £7.5 billion this year and next to support adult social care and discharge, a more than real terms increase.</p><p>We have also recently announced a further £570 million ‘Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund (MSIF) - Workforce Fund’ which will support increased adult social care capacity and improve market sustainability with a particular focus on workforce pay.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 16/10/2023 15:02:48 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1654157

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2023
	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 His Majesty's Government how many applications for social care have been assessed for need and have been funded after having been means tested in each of the past 10 years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Turnberg
	uin	HL9474
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing individuals’ care and support needs and, where eligible, for meeting those needs. Where individuals do not meet the eligibility threshold, they can get support from their local authorities in making their own arrangements for care services, as set out in the Care Act 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Eligible needs are those which relate to, for example, maintaining personal hygiene and nutrition, and maintaining and developing relationships, and which significantly impact on the adult’s wellbeing. Full details of the eligibility requirements can be found in The Care and Support (Eligibility Criteria) Regulations 2014.</p><p> </p><p>We do not currently hold data on how many applications for social care have been assessed for need. Through a new data collection, Client Level Data, we are beginning to collect event-level information from local authorities on adult social care activity. This will include records of assessment of eligible needs and the funding status of local authority-commissioned services.</p><p> </p><p>To assess means, local authorities must follow The Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resources) Regulations 2014 and have regard to the Care and Support Statutory (CASS) guidance. The responsibility for interpreting and applying the Regulations and the CASS guidance rests with local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>Whether or not a person qualifies for any financial support towards their care costs depends on their capital assets as follows: anyone who has above the upper capital limit of £23,250 is expected to meet the full cost of their care; anyone who has below the lower capital limit of £14,250 pays what they can afford from income only; and anyone between the above two limits pays what they can afford from income plus a contribution from their assets.</p><p> </p><p>A means-tested contribution from assets is determined by tariff income, which assumes that a person can afford to pay £1 per week for every £250 of assets between the limits. In 2021/22 there were almost 1,978,550 requests for support from new clients received by local authorities. Data on the funding of means testing done in the past 10 years is not held centrally.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL9472 question first answered 24/07/2023 14:24:05 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	2537 label Biography information for Lord Turnberg

1645498

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2023
	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 His Majesty's Government what steps they will take, if any, to increase funding for social care.
	tabling member printed	Lord Jones
	uin	HL8599
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government has already provided a historic increase in funding for social care. The Government announced at the Autumn Statement that up to £7.5 billion of additional funding would be available for Adult Social Care and discharge over the next two years. This historic funding boost should put the adult social care system on a stronger financial footing and help local authorities address waiting lists, low fee rates, and workforce pressures in the sector. We will keep working closely with local authorities and the adult social care sector to understand current pressures on service delivery and budgets.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 22/06/2023 16:49:12 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	530 label Biography information for Lord Jones

1642523

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Social Care Grant.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	188314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring tax payers money is spent effectively. All departmental expenditure is made in line with the principles set out in Managing Public Money and the Green Book, and we regularly consider the performance of programmes to ensure they are delivering for communities across the country.</p><p>Also, in November 2022, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities published its first <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fdluhc-evaluation-strategy%2Fdluhc-evaluation-strategy&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cb9ab54dde080460eb60d08db6cc33ef4%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638223358040578190%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=qVg5NZ%2BSEs9z2MC%2FjPT41DVWQnBcqtrvXt1o1ykDoIQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">evaluation strategy</a>, which sets out our commitment to undertake and learn from evaluation activity across our policy areas. It outlines evaluation activity that is already underway and future plans. The annexes provide a list of ongoing and planned work, as well as a list of published evaluations. In addition, we are listing all new commissioned research projects, from January 2023 on gov.uk website, and aim to publish completed research outputs promptly on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 188309 188310 188312 188565 188566 188567 188568 188569 188570 188571 188572 188573 188574 188575 188576 188577 188578 188579 188580 188581 question first answered 14/06/2023 16:26:51 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1628280

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2023
	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 the unallocated funding in the Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care report will be used for; and when that funding will allocated.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester West
	tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
	uin	185296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>Up to £600 million of funding announced in the People at the Heart of Care white paper has not yet been allocated. The Government is considering how best to use this funding, including further investment in workforce and will target this remaining funding on measures that will have the most impact.</p><p>The recently published ‘Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care’ set out more detail on the Government’s plans for reform over the next two years, building on the £100 million already invested in the past year.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 24/05/2023 10:41:14 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

1628281

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2023
	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, how much funding was allocated to support the social care workforce in the People at the Heart of Care White Paper in December 2021 compared to the Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care report in March 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester West
	tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
	uin	185297
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>In the People at the Heart of Care white paper, the Government allocated at least £500 million to transform the way we support and develop the workforce. In Next Steps to put People at the Heart of Care, we set out plans to invest £250 million in the workforce over the next two years.</p><p>The Government is also considering how best to use an additional £600 million of funding, including further investment in the workforce, and we will target this remaining funding on measures that will have the most impact.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 24/05/2023 10:51:45 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

1624333

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2023
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 20 April 2023 to Question 180229 on Social Services: Finance, whether he plans to assess the impact of changes in the level of social care workforce train and retain funding on charitable and not-for-profit providers.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	183143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>We have no plans to make an assessment.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 03/05/2023 10:16:56 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft