Health Services and Social Services: Expenditure
(asked on 27th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department allocated to local authorities to facilitate the integration of health and social care services in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018 and (e) 2019.
The Better Care Fund (BCF) is the Government’s national policy to drive forward integration by enabling greater cooperation between health and social care partners at a local level. It brings together ring-fenced budgets from National Health Service clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocations, and funding paid directly to local government, including the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG), and the improved Better Care Fund (iBCF) into a single pooled budget for health and social care services in local areas to work more closely together, based on a plan agreed between the NHS and local government.
The breakdown of funding in the BCF since 2015 is set out in the following table.
The 2019 Spending Round announced that the BCF (NHS CCG minimum allocations) would continue into 2020-21 with a real-terms increase of 3.4%, and that the iBCF would be maintained at flat cash.
BCF Breakdown 2015-16 to 2019-20
Source | 2015/16 (£ billion) | 2016/17 (£ billion) | 2017/18 (£ billion) | 2018/19 (£ billion) | 2019/20 (£ billion) |
NHS funding (Minimum CCG Contribution) | £3.46 | £3.519 | £3.582 | £3.650 | £3.840 |
DFG | £0.22 | £0.394 | £0.431 | £0.468 | £0.505 |
iBCF | - | - | £1.115 | £1.499 | £1.837 |
Social care capital grant | £0.134 | - | - | - | - |
Winter pressure grant funding | - |
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| £0.240 |
Total minimum contribution | £3.8 | £3.9 | £5.128 | £5.617 | £6.422 |
Local voluntary contribution from CCGs | £0.7 | £1.0 | £1.1 | £1.108 | Tbc |
Local voluntary contribution from local authorities | £0.8 | £1.0 | £1.1 | £1.009 | Tbc |
Total voluntary contribution | £1.5 | £2.0 | £2.2 | £2.117 | Tbc |
Total | £5.3 | £5.9 | £7.3 | £7.7341 | Tbc |
DFG top-up2 | - | - | £0.042 | £0.055 | - |
Notes:
1From BCF Planning Data 2018-19: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/better-care-fund-2018-19-planning-data/
2 Autumn Budget 2017 has provided an additional £42 million for the rest of the 2017-18 financial year. This additional funding was not subject to the BCF requirements, for example, the need for local authorities and CCGs to jointly agree how to spend the funding as part of their local BCF plan.