Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the aggregated total budgeted by local authorities in England for adult social care was in 2015-16; what the aggregated actual amount spent on adult social care was in that year; and if he will make a statement.

The Government continues to view adult social care as a key priority, and is giving local authorities access to up to £3.5 billion additional funding for adult social care by 2019/20.

Data published by the Department for Communities and Local Government on 15 July 2015 shows that in 2015-16, local authorities budgeted to spend £14.081 billion on adult social care[1]. Provisional outturn data published by the Department for Communities and Local Government on 25 August 2016 shows local authorities spent £14.394 billion on adult social care in 2015-16[2]. This data is provisional, and we expect final data on local authority spend to be published on 17 November.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2015-to-2016-budget

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2015-to-2016-provisional-outturn