Barbara Keeley – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barbara Keeley on 2016-01-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2016 to Question 25215, if he will estimate the difference between the additional cost to social care providers of paying the new national living wage and the amount available to local authorities through the social care precept and the Better Care Fund in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18 and (c) 2018-19.

Alistair Burt

It is the decision of local councils whether to raise the adult social care precept in order to pay for adult social care in their local area. The precept gives local areas who are best placed to respond to local needs and pressures the flexibility to be able to do so.

The additional amount available to local authorities for adult social care through the social care precept and the Better Care Fund are as follows: