Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much NHS England has allocated to each local authority for 2015 for the Better Care Fund.

NHS England has not allocated any money directly to local authorities in 2015/16 for the Better Care Fund (BCF). Rather, it has ring-fenced £3.46 billion of clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocations in 2015/16 for inclusion in the BCF, with each CCG then contributing its proportion of that £3.46 billion to a pooled budget established with the appropriate local authority. Of the £3.46 billion, £1.1 billion is distributed using the social care formula and then mapped to CCGs. The remaining £2.36 billion is distributed using the CCG formula and then mapped to local authorities.

The attached table shows the mandatory contribution made by each CCG to each local authority’s pooled budget. Due to a lack of co-terminosity, some CCGs have contributed to more than one pooled budget.