Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of care packages handed back by care agencies in each of the past three years which have been distributed (1) privately, and (2) by public authorities, broken down by region.

A limited amount of information on care packages handed back by home care agencies has been collected by the Department since September 2022. We have recently reviewed how this information is gathered and are starting to gather more detailed information. However, we are unable to publish the data as the majority is supplied on a voluntary basis, and is therefore not representative.