Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help provide additional bed capacity in the social care sector.
The Government is making available an additional £2.8 billion in 2023/24 and £4.7 billion in 2024/25 for social care. We are also allocating £500 million in winter 2022/23 to support local areas to accelerate safe discharge from hospital to appropriate settings, including social care.