Social Services: Finance
(asked on 31st January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answers of 9 January 2017 to Question 58515 and of 18 January 2017 to Question 59298, what plans he has to equalise the payment ratio of new homes bonuses in two-tier local authority areas to help fund social care; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 8th February 2017
The Government has reformed the New Homes Bonus, and the distribution of funding specifically for adult social care was set out in the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement on 15 December 2016.