Public Health and Social Services: Finance
(asked on 19th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what increases, in constant prices and on present funding plans, will be provided for (1) Public Health England, (2) local authority public health services, and (3) adult social care services, over each of the next five years; and what are the planned annual percentage increases for each of those service areas over that period.
The available figures are provided in the following table.
| 2019-20 budget | 2020-21 budget |
Public Health England: operating expenditure £ million | 287 | 287 |
Increase (£) | - | £0 |
Increase (%) | - | 0% |
| 2019-20 planned | 2020-21 planned |
Public health funding for local authorities £ billion | 3.13 | 3.13 |
Increase (£) | - | £0 |
Increase (%) | - | 0% |
Budgets for both Public Health England and local authorities beyond these years will be agreed as part of the next Spending Review settlement.
Spending decisions on social care, including annual increases, are a matter for local government which know their local areas best. Overall, the Government has given access to £9.4 billion additional funding for social care between 2017-18 and 2019-20. Funding allocations for local government beyond 2019-20 are subject to the Spending Review.