Asked by: Dan Poulter (Labour - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities are allocating how much funding to the Better Care Fund in 2015-16.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
Better Care Fund Plans were agreed by Health and Wellbeing Boards and are funded jointly through money pooled by the upper tier local authority and relevant clinical commissioning groups. Both local authorities and clinical commissioning groups were required to pool a minimum amount but could voluntarily pool funds over and above that minimum requirement. The attached table sets out the total funds (minimum and voluntary) pooled by each local authority and is drawn from the plans submitted by Health and Wellbeing Boards to NHS England in 2014.