Social Services
(asked on 15th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the Government spent in (a) cash terms, (b) real terms and (c) per person in (i) cash and (ii) real terms on social care in England in each of the last five years.
Local government net expenditure on adult social care in cash and real terms is set out in the table below. This has been adjusted to include the National Health Service transfer to social care.
Local government net expenditure on adult social care 2009-10 to 2013-14
Net current expenditure, £ billon | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 |
Cash prices | 15.74 | 16.08 | 15.55 | 15.35 | 15.51 |
2013-14 prices | 17.20 | 17.12 | 16.19 | 15.70 | 15.51 |
The Department cannot provide per person data on spend on adult social care. This is because individual level data is not collected in this way.