Social Services: Finance

(asked on 25th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assumptions he has made about available spending for social care in his spending forecast for 2021-22.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 30th November 2020

The Spending Review provided councils with access to over £1bn of new spending power to fund social care in 21/22. This includes £300m of new grant funding for social care and is on top of maintaining £3.5bn of existing social care grants.

In addition, we expect to provide councils with over £3bn to help manage the impact of COVID-19 across their services, including in social care.

This will support local authorities to maintain care services while keeping up with rising demand and recovering from the impact of COVID-19.

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