Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press notice entitled Up to £250 million to speed up hospital discharge, published by his Department on 9 January 2023, whether there is a deadline by which that funding needs to be spent.

The £50 million capital funding and the £200 million funding for short-term National Health Service step down care packages is required to be incurred by 31 March 2023.