Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to support councils to deliver social care services for older and disabled people.

We will invest £5.4 billion over the next three years to reform adult social care. This includes more than £3.6 billion to reform the social care charging system, enabling local authorities to move towards paying providers a fair rate for care and over £1.7 billion to begin improvements across the social care system in England.

The provisional Local Government Finance Settlement proposes an additional £3.5 billion for councils - an increase in local authority funding for 2022/23 of over 4% in real terms. As part of this settlement, local authorities will have access to over £1 billion specifically for social care in 2022/23.