Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of funding required to maintain current standards and thresholds within the social care system over the next three years.

We are providing councils with £1.6 billion of new funding per year from 2022/23 to 2024/25 for social care and other services. We are also assuming councils will have flexibility to increase the adult social care precept by 1% per year. We have also confirmed £5.4 billion for adult social care reform. This includes over £3.6 billion to reform the social care charging system and enable all local authorities to move towards paying providers a fair rate for care and over £1.7 billion to institute major improvements across the social care system in England.