Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 5.5 of the Spring Budget 2017, how much of the £2 billion fund for councils in England to spend on adult social care services will be allocated to South Tyneside local authority.

Following the Budget announcements, local authorities in England will receive an additional £2 billion for social care over the next three years. £1 billion of this will be provided in 2017-18, ensuring that councils can start to fund more care packages immediately.

In particular, South Tyneside local authority will receive £8.2 million additional funding for adult social care over three years.

Council-by-council allocations of the additional funding have been published by the Department for Communities and Local Government at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-allocations-of-the-additional-funding-for-adult-social-care

The additional money will be provided as a grant to each council in England and there are conditions which ensure that it is all spent on adult social care.