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1694574

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2024
	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, whether he made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of increasing funding for (a) social care and (b) the Better Care Fund in the Spring Budget 2024.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	17666
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The Chancellor and Chief Secretary hold regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues on spending priorities for fiscal events.</p><p>The government has now made available up to £8.6bn in additional funding over this financial year and next to support adult social care and discharge. This includes £500m announced in January which has specifically been made available to support local authorities with the cost of social care in 2024-25 in response to representations from local government stakeholders. This funding will enable local authorities to buy more care packages, help people leave hospital on time, improve workforce recruitment and retention, and reduce waiting times for care.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 15/03/2024 11:16:12 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

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

1565849

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2023
	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 percentage of his Department's financial support package for social care has been spent on staff wages.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	120987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 19/01/2023 16:24:33 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1546957

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	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 potential merits of increasing the level of funding for adult social care.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	99909
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is providing up to £7.5 billion over two years to support adult social care and discharge with up to £2.8 billion available in 2023/24 and £4.7 billion in 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 07/12/2022 12:50:12 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1416512

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2022
	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 recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of on local authority funding to meet the demands of (a) child and (b) adult social care; and what steps is he taking to tackle any potential shortfall.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	111638
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2022 answer text <p>The 2022/23 provisional Local Government Finance Settlement makes available an additional £3.5 billion to councils. This is an increase in local authority funding for 2022/23 of over 4% in real terms, which will ensure councils across the country have the resources they need to deliver key services, including Adult and Children's Social Care.</p><p>Local authorities can make use of over £1 billion of additional resource specifically for social care in 2022/23. This includes:</p><ul><li>£636 million more into the Social Care Grant, including funding for equalisation against the 1% Adult Social Care precept;</li><li>£63 million into the improved Better Care Fund, providing an inflationary uplift to support integrated working with the NHS, and;</li><li>a 1% Adult Social Care precept and deferred flexibilities from last year's settlement.</li></ul><p>On top of this funding to address core pressures, £162 million in adult social care reform funding will be allocated in 2022/23 to support local authorities as they prepare their markets for adult social care reform and to help move towards paying a fair cost of care.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 111637 question first answered 28/01/2022 14:53:08 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1364093

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2021
	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 has taken through his Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 to help local authorities support those in the social care system.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	64668
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2021 answer text <p>At the Spending Review it was announced that Government is providing Local Government with £4.8bn of new grant over three years to meet core pressures in social care and other services. In addition to this, if local authorities were to use the full flexibility that we have assumed for the purposes of the Spending Review settlement, they are expected to have access to up to £1.7bn of additional funding over the Spending Review period for adult social care through the ability to increase the adult social care precept by up to 1% each year.</p><p> </p><p>In September the Prime Minister announced the package of reforms to adult social care – funded through the Health and Social Care Levy – which committed the Government to investing an additional £5.4bn in adult social care over the next three years. The Spending Review confirmed that £3.6bn of the £5.4bn will be available for local government to implement comprehensive funding reform of the adult social care system. This funding will also enable local authorities to better sustain their local care markets by moving towards a fairer cost of care.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 01/11/2021 15:50:01 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1354940

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2021
	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 will take to fund the current unmet needs in the social care sector.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	48301
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2021 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing individual’s eligibility for care and support as set out in the Care Act 2014 and where the individual is eligible for financial support, for meeting those needs.</p><p>We have committed to investing an additional £5.4 billion over three years, which will allow us to begin a comprehensive programme of reform for adult social care. This includes major improvements to the wider social care system in England. We are also committed to ensuring local authorities have access to sustainable funding for core budgets at the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 23/09/2021 09:55:51 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1339563

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2021
	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, if the Government will make it its policy to provide a national insurance contributions based solution to funding social care.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	21275
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to sustainable improvement of the adult social care system. Our objectives for reform are to enable an affordable, high quality adult social care system that meets people’s needs. The reform of social care and its funding arrangements are complex areas and a range of options for how to deliver on this commitment are being considered. We will bring forward proposals in 2021.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 21273 question first answered 01/07/2021 10:16:54 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell