Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the report The state of health care and adult social care in England 2021/22 by the Care Quality Commission, published on 21 October, which found that, due to a lack of capacity in social care, just two in five people leave hospital when they are fit for discharge, what steps they are taking to increase capacity in social care so more patients can be discharged.

We are investing £500 million to accelerate the safe discharge of medically fit patients from hospitals into social care. This funding can be used flexibly by local health and care systems, targeting areas facing the greatest challenges and supporting recruitment and retention in the sector. We are also investing £15 million to increase international recruitment of care workers and promoting adult social care careers through a recently launched national recruitment campaign.