Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the findings of the survey by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Care, published on 13 January 2022, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing targeted long-term funding to enable local authorities to improve working conditions in adult social care services.

We are providing approximately £1.6 billion in additional grant funding in each of the next three years to allow councils to increase spending on services such as adult social care. The Local Government Finance settlement also made an additional £3.7 billion available to councils in 2022/23. Of this, local authorities will have access to more than £1 billion specifically for social care. We are also providing of least £500 million to develop and support the adult social care workforce and fund initiatives on wellbeing and additional training.