Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of funding from the Better Care Fund has been allocated to local systems in Essex.
The following table shows the 2026/27 Better Care Fund (BCF) allocations for Essex broken down by local authority:
Local authority | BCF allocation | Proportion of overall BCF |
Southend-on-Sea | £31,301,827 | 0.3% |
Thurrock | £24,849,317 | 0.3% |
Essex | £219,500,841 | 2.4% |