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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the announcement in Budget 2017 of an additional £2 billion of funding for social care, how long it took on average for (a) health and wellbeing boards, (b) local authorities and (c) clinical commissioning groups to sign-off plans for the use of their respective local authorities' share of the funding for 2017-18.

In total 148 areas submitted agreed Better Care Fund (BCF) plans by 11 September 2017 in line with the Planning Requirements for the BCF in 2017-2019. Two areas were not been able to agree their BCF plans for the deadline. These two plans were submitted on 29 September and 13 October 2017.