Social Services: Finance

(asked on 6th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on unmet social care needs in England.


Answered by
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Marcus Jones
Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
This question was answered on 13th July 2017

Earlier this year, the Government gave councils access to £9.25 billion more dedicated funding for social care over the next three years. This includes an additional £2 billion of funding in England, as announced at the Spring Budget 2017.

The vast majority of the money announced at Spring Budget and for the improved Better Care Fund at Spending Review 2015 will be allocated to ensure that those who can raise less through the social care precept element benefit most. The remainder will be allocated according to relative need in recognition of the additional challenges which social care places on all councils.

More widely we remain committed to the Fair Funding Review as an important way to address concerns about the fairness of current funding distributions to local authorities. There have been widespread calls for a thorough, evidence-based review and this we plan to deliver. We will therefore continue to make progress with the review, in collaboration with the LGA and local authority officers.

The Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department for Health work closely together to ensure that our policy priorities are aligned and our Departments are in regular contact at ministerial and official level.

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