Local Government Finance Settlement

Kate Green Excerpts

Tuesday 19th December 2017 Commons Chamber

[Sajid Javid]

This year is the final year of the transition grant.

[Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston) (Lab)]

The Care Quality Commission’s local system review of adult social care in Trafford, which I received this week, says that investment in social care was not as much as it should be, while, at the same time, the council was trying to transform social care. Delayed transfers of care are very high in the borough. Will the Secretary of State say whether Trafford Council has been adequately funded both to maintain social care as required now and for transformation in the future?

[Sajid Javid]

Trafford is a very well run council, which can set examples for many others in that area, but, like many, it is having to deal with added pressures, including on social care. I know that it has certainly welcomed the additional funding that we announced earlier this year, and the flexibility that I announced this time last year.