Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department has allocated to adult social care in (a) Kirklees, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) England in each of the last seven years.

Local authorities' expenditure on services, including on Adult Social Care for previous years, can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing

Councils have also been able to add a precept for adult social care onto their council tax, which most of them have done.

Local authority expenditure is funded through a range of income sources including government grants, council tax, business rates and fees and charges. Many government grants are not ring-fenced, leaving local authorities to determine how much is spent on different services.

However, the Government has provided specific funding to councils for adult social care in recent years, most noticeably through the improved Better Care Fund which was supplemented by the additional £2 billion announced at Spring Budget 2017. Details of individual council allocations of the Spring Budget funding can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-allocations-of-the-additional-funding-for-adult-social-care

Details of the original improved Better Care Fund allocations along with the potential revenue from the precept (as announced at SR15) can be found with core spending power tables published with the LGFS - www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2017-to-2018.