Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of including adult social care provision within housing development plans.

Provision of Adult Social Care is a Government priority, which is why this Government has given councils access to £10 billion dedicated funding that can be used for adult social care in the three year period to 2019-20.

Government has continued to subsidise the supply of new supported and sheltered housing as well as investing more than £2.7 billion into the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) between 2012-13 and 2019-20. The DFG has been funded through the Better Care Fund since 2015 in in recognition of the crucial role which home adaptations can play in supporting the integration of housing, health and social care.

The Department has also strengthened the revised National Planning Policy Framework so that local planning authorities are expected to have policies which identify the size, type and tenure of homes required for different groups in the community.