Social Services: Expenditure

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered am ar 24 Mai 2024.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Sarah Owen Sarah Owen Llafur, Luton North

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the proportion of funding from central Government for adult social care that has been spent on supporting people of working age with such needs in each of the last three years.

Photo of Helen Whately Helen Whately Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department does not hold data on the proportion of central Government funding spent on supporting people of working age, those aged 18 to 64 years old, with their care needs. NHS England does publish data on net local authority expenditure on adult social care. Of the expenditure on long and short-term care that is disaggregated by age-band, £8.7 billion, or 54%, was spent on working age adults in 2022/23. It is likely that a proportion of the spend in this data that is not specifically age attributed, is also used to support people of working age.

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