Respite Care: Pendle
(asked on 9th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve respite care provisions in Pendle constituency.
This question was answered on 16th June 2014
We have provided £400 million to the National Health Service over four years from 2011 for carers to have breaks from their caring responsibilities.
In the 2013 Spending Review, we announced the £3.8 billion Better Care Fund, which includes £130 millionfunding for carers' breaks for 2015-16.
In 2015-16, East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group will receive £8.1 million from the Better Care Fund.