Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the provision of social care in St Helens in each year up to 2025.

As a result of a range of Government actions, St Helens received an additional £13.2 million for adult social care in 2018/19.

With full take-up of the social care precept in 2018/19 and 2019/20 based on their previous decisions, St Helens could receive a total of £37.4 million additional funding between 2017/18 and 2019/20.

St Helens's adult social care budget for 2018/19 is £49.3 million. This is a 1.0% decrease (in cash terms) compared to the previous year (2017/18).

In 2017/18 St Helens's budgeted £49.8 million for adult social care. This is a 12.0% increase (in cash terms) compared to the previous year (2016/17).

The Government will take decisions on funding for social care beyond 2019/20 as part of the upcoming spending review.