Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding allocated for social care.

The Department regularly monitors the financial pressures facing the adult social care system and works closely with the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and HM Treasury to ensure funding meets the needs of the sector. At the Autumn Statement we made available up to £7.5 billion this year and next to support adult social care and discharge, a more than real terms increase.

We have also recently announced a further £570 million ‘Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund (MSIF) - Workforce Fund’ which will support increased adult social care capacity and improve market sustainability with a particular focus on workforce pay.