Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of social care pay was funded through local authority fees in the latest period for which data is available.

The Department is not able to make an assessment of the percentage of social care pay bill costs funded through local authority fees. This is because most of the adult social care workforce are employed by private sector providers who set their pay and terms and conditions, independent of central Government. Local authorities work with care providers to determine state-funded fee rates, which should take account of wage costs, based on local market conditions.