Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 28 December 2016 (HL4038), what allocations from the Better Care Fund will have been made by the end of 2017–18 to each named local authority in England with responsibility for adult social care; and what further resources from this Fund will remain available for distribution in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Allocations for the improved Better Care Fund in 2017-18 (£105 million), 2018-19 (£825 million) and 2019-20 (£1.5 billion) were published (attached) alongside the Local Government Finance Settlement in February 2017 - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2017-to-2018.

The additional £2 billion announced at Budget tops up the improved Better Care Fund and the allocations for all three years were published (attached) on 9 March - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-allocations-of-the-additional-funding-for-adult-social-care