Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what their estimate is of the percentage of total care packages funded by public authorities that have handed back in each of the past three years, 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.