Lord Warner – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Warner on 2015-11-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the real-term expenditure on local authority-brokered social care in each of the last five years for which information is available.

Lord Prior of Brampton

Based on existing data, the last five years of adult social care spend (including transfers from the National Health Service) in real terms (2014-15 prices) are as follows:

2010-11 £17.19 billion

2011-12 £16.35 billion

2012-13 £15.89 billion

2013-14 £15.72 billion

2014-15 £15.51 billion

This information is based upon Department for Communities and Local Government budget data.

The real terms figures (2014-15 prices) for gross spend on children and young people’s services (including capital expenditure from revenue), calculated from the Department for Education section 251 data returns, are:

2010-11 £9.92 billion

2011-12 £9.12 billion

2012-13 £9.20 billion

2013-14 £9.12 billion

2014-15 data will be available later in this financial year.