Peter Kyle – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Peter Kyle on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of Better Care Fund funding was allocated to social care in England in the first quarter of 2015-16.

Alistair Burt

The information requested is not collected nationally. The overall size of the Better Care Fund (BCF) in 2015-16 is £5.3 billion. A published analysis of the BCF plans indicated that local areas were planning to allocate £2.3 billion to social care (43% of total planned expenditure) over 2015-16.