Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many funds are allocated to local authorities by his Department through a process of competitive bidding; and if he will publish the names of those funds.

The five grant funded schemes allocated in 2021-22 which involved a competitive bidding process are as follows:

- Rough Sleepers Drug and Alcohol Treatment Grant Scheme;

- Children of Alcohol Dependent Parents;

- Child and Family Weight Management Services;

- Shared Outcomes Fund – Rough Sleepers; and

- Self-Isolation Pilots.