Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Autumn Statement on 17 November 2022, Official Report, column 850, on what evidential basis the Chancellor said that 200,000 additional care packages could be delivered due to funding made available for the health and social care sector in the next two years.

The Government is making available up to £7.5 billion over two years to support adult social care and discharge. Dividing this amount of new funding by the average cost of a long-term care package, which is approximately £37,500, provides an illustration of how many long-term care packages this funding could equate to. Local areas will be responsible for deciding how this funding is best used.