Treasury<p>The government has 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><p> </p><p>At Spring Budget, the government announced it is investing £165 million over the next 4 years to significantly expand the capacity of the children’s home estate in England, improving outcomes for looked after children and unlocking productivity savings by reducing local government reliance on emergency provision. The government is also exploring further ways to combat profiteering and bring down costs in the children’s care market. This is in addition to the £200 million the government has already committed in response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.</p>SevenoaksLaura Trott2024-03-27false2024-03-27T09:22:16.067Z14TreasuryTreasury2024-03-19Social Services: Finance1House of CommonsTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of funding for social care.falseLewisham, DeptfordVicky Foxcroft19406Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities<p>Through the Local Government Finance Settlement for 2024-25, we are providing over £1.5 billion in additional grant for social care compared to 2023-24. This is part of an above-inflation increase in Core Spending Power for local government from 2023-24 of up to £4.5 billion, or 7.5% in cash terms.</p><p>Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations are published on gov.uk.</p>North DorsetSimon Hoare2024-03-2619217false2024-03-26T13:57:59.843Z211Levelling Up, Housing and CommunitiesLevelling Up, Housing and Communities2024-03-18Social Services: Finance1House of CommonsTo ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has held discussions with adult social care providers on potential future risks to the local financing of the provision of care.falseDewsburyMark Eastwood19216Treasury<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>SevenoaksLaura Trott2024-03-15false2024-03-15T11:16:12.83Z14TreasuryTreasury2024-03-07Social Services: Finance1House of CommonsTo 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.falseYork CentralRachael Maskell17666Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities<p>In 2022, the Government confirmed reforms to the funding formula would not be implemented in this spending review after hearing calls from councils for stability. The Government remains committed to improving the local government finance landscape.</p>North DorsetSimon Hoare2024-02-23false2024-02-23T16:04:01.187Z211Levelling Up, Housing and CommunitiesLevelling Up, Housing and Communities2024-02-19Social Services: Finance1House of CommonsTo ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to reform the funding system for the delivery of adult social care by local councils.falseRomfordAndrew Rosindell14486Department of Health and Social Care<p>The Department of Health and Social Care carries out regular exercises to assess the financial pressures facing councils and adult social care providers. These assessments account for a wide range of pressures, including changes to the National Living Wage, and these are shared with HM Treasury and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and are used to inform decisions on the overall funding available to local government.</p>Lord Markham2024-02-05HL1790false2024-02-05T12:07:51.94Z17Health and Social CareHealth and Social Care2024-01-22Social Services: Finance2House of LordsTo ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how much the National Living Wage increase for 2024–25 will cost councils and providers with responsibility for adult social care; and the impact of this increase on market stability in the adult social care sector, especially in areas with a higher proportion of state-funded care users.falseLord Hunt of Kings HeathHL1789Department of Health and Social Care<p>The Department of Health and Social Care carries out regular exercises to assess the financial pressures facing councils and adult social care providers. These assessments account for a wide range of pressures, including changes to the National Living Wage, and these are shared with HM Treasury and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and are used to inform decisions on the overall funding available to local government.</p>Lord Markham2024-02-05HL1789false2024-02-05T12:07:51.983Z17Health and Social CareHealth and Social Care2024-01-22Social Services: Finance2House of LordsTo ask His Majesty's Government what burdens or impact assessments they have undertaken into the impact of the National Living Wage increases for 2024–25 on (1) councils with adult social care responsibility, and (2) care providers.falseLord Hunt of Kings HeathHL1790Department of Health and Social Care<p>The total value of the precept each year includes all the annual increases set by councils since 2016/17, and the Government does not publish this total. We cannot therefore calculate the proportion of adult social care spend each year funded from the precept. However, the Government publishes the amount raised by the increase in the adult social care precept each year. In 2023/24, councils could increase the precept by up to 2%, raising an estimated maximum of £561 million.</p><p> </p><p>The evidence review for Adult Social Care Reform, published in December 2021, estimated that up to 70% of total adult social care spend is from public sources.</p><p> </p><p>The impact of the social care precept varies across the country, depending upon the decisions that local authorities make about how much precept to levy and how much it needs to spend on adult social care.</p>Faversham and Mid KentHelen Whately2024-01-12false2024-01-12T14:50:16.18Z17Health and Social CareHealth and Social Care2023-12-15Social Services: Finance1House of CommonsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the costs of social care are funded by the adult social care precept charged by local authorities.falseEast DevonSimon Jupp7234Department of Health and Social Care<p>The Government is investing an additional £600 million this year, and £1 billion next year through the Discharge Fund. This funding will enable the National Health Service and local authorities in England to reduce discharge delays, including by commissioning additional packages of care and support for rehabilitation and reablement.</p><p>In September, alongside the £200 million to boost resilience in the NHS, we announced a £40 million fund, targeted at local authorities in the most challenged NHS systems in England. This fund will strengthen urgent and emergency care resilience and performance this winter by preventing avoidable admissions or by reducing discharge delays.</p>Faversham and Mid KentHelen Whately2023-12-13false2023-12-13T17:40:24.197Z17Health and Social CareHealth and Social Care2023-12-05Social Services: Finance1House of CommonsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Adult social care system reform: next steps to put People at the Heart of Care, published on 4 April 2023, if she will take steps to make funding available to expedite the discharge of elderly patients from hospital.falseStrangfordJim Shannon5271Department of Health and Social Care<p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for York Central on 22 November 2023 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-11-16/2356" target="_blank">2356</a>.</p>Faversham and Mid KentHelen Whately2023-12-04false2023-12-04T16:58:27.78Z17Health and Social CareHealth and Social Care2023-11-29Social Services: Finance1House of CommonsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the level of funding allocated for social care.falseLewisham, DeptfordVicky Foxcroft4477Department of Health and Social Care<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>Faversham and Mid KentHelen Whately2023-11-22false2023-11-22T17:02:56.883Z17Health and Social CareHealth and Social Care2023-11-16Social Services: Finance1House of CommonsTo 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.falseYork CentralRachael Maskell23561001309