Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12848, on Employers’ Contributions: GP’s, what (a) assessment she has made of the impact of changes to National Insurance contributions on social care providers and (b) estimate she has made of how much and what proportion of local authorities' social care budgets will be spent on increases to social care costs.

The government considered the cost pressures facing adult social care and wider local government spending as part of the Spending Review process.

The government is providing a real-terms uplift to core local government spending power of around 3.2% which includes £1.3bn of new grant funding for 2025-26 – at least £600 million of which is new grant funding to support social care.