Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which local authorities received the Adult Social Care Infection Control Fund payments in (a) May and (b) July 2020 but did not spend it.

On 15 May 2020 we published details of a £600 million Infection Control Fund for adult social care. The Fund was paid in two instalments: in May and July. The Department is still assuring the information that local authorities have provided on the final expenditure of the overall fund, which ran from May to September 2020. However, on 27 July, we published data that shows that every local authority distributed funding and that, in total, councils had distributed £257 million of the initial £300 million tranche by 23 July.

On 17 September 2020 the Government announced the extension of this fund until March 2021, with an additional £546 million for the care sector.