Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish funding by the Better Care Fund to support unpaid carers for (a) 2023 and (b) 2024, by region; and what information his Department holds on regional variation in Better Care Fund spending.

NHS England publishes planning data for the Better Care Fund, by region and local authority. This provides a breakdown of income, planned expenditure by different types of activity and planned performance against agreed metrics. The latest data is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/better-care-fund-2023-to-2025-planning-data/

The publication includes data on planned expenditure on ‘carers services’, including by region. This expenditure will include spend on unpaid carers, but it is not possible to provide a figure for spend on unpaid carers specifically.