Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the percentage of the Infection Control Fund allocated to local authorities that has been used by residential care homes to ensure that staff who are isolating in line with COVID-19 guidance experience no loss of income.

The Department is still assuring the information that local authorities have provided on the final expenditure against the initial fund, which ran from May to September 2020. However, on 27 July, we published data that shows that 18.7% of the funding spent by 23 July was allocated to paying staff to self-isolate following a positive COVID-19 diagnosis, totalling over £47 million.