Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Health and social care integration: joining up care for people, places and populations White Paper, published on 8 February 2022, what estimate his Department has made of the funding required to deliver those proposals.

The measures set out within the white paper will be delivered within the funding provided to the National Health Service. The Spending Review in 2021 provided £23.2 billion for the NHS over the next three years, supported by the new Health and Social Care Levy, and £5.4 billion for adult social care reform. This is in addition to the long-term settlement for the NHS, where funding will increase by £33.9 billion a year between 2019/20 and 2023/24. We expect local areas to make use of existing NHS funding. As progress on integration accelerates, we will consider the implications for other existing funding mechanisms.