Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish monthly data from the Capacity Tracker on the number of returned care packages, by (a) NHS-funded and (b) Local Authority-funded recipients.

Since January 2025, we have hosted a survey on the Capacity Tracker which has collected information on a voluntary basis from both care home and home care provider locations regarding their handing back of local authority or National Health Service funded packages of care. We are considering how this information might best be shared publicly in a way that provides insights that are as accurate and useful as possible for the sector. We do not yet have an intended publication date.