Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of adults receiving local authority-run social care services in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK.
The following table shows the number of people receiving care services in 2017/18.
2017/18 during year | Coventry | West Midlands | England |
Long Term Care Users | 4,345 | 86,855 | 857,770 |
Completed Short Term Care Episodes | 1,810 | 19,865 | 246,035 |
Source: NHS Digital publication ‘Adult Social Care Activity and Finance: England 2017-18’