Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will offer financial support to local authorities to help social care providers increase the mileage allowance paid to care workers.

The Government is making available up to £7.5 billion over two years to support adult social care and discharge. Local authorities, who work with care providers to determine fee rates, have discretion about how to use this historic increase in funding to best address the pressures in their local areas.