Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 23 December 2016 (HL4083), which local authorities in England with responsibility for adult social care will not be using their precept raising power to the maximum permitted level in 2017–18 to fund adult social care.

Council tax levels set by local authorities in England for 2017-18 were published (attached) on 29 March - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/council-tax-levels-set-by-local-authorities-in-england-2017-to-2018.

In 2017-18, 147 out of 152 adult social care authorities will use some or all of the 3 per cent adult social care precept flexibility when setting their council tax, with 109 using the full, or close to full, 3 per cent. I will place a list of local authorities which will not be using their precept raising power to the maximum permitted level in 2017 -18 to fund adult social care in the House library.