Health: Adult Social Care

House of Lords written question – answered at on 7 January 2014.

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Photo of Lord Warner Lord Warner Labour

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total public expenditure on (1) adult social care, and (2) the Attendance Allowance benefit, in 2012–13 and the previous four financial years; and what is the forecast expenditure on those items for 2013–14.

Photo of Lord Freud Lord Freud The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

The provision of adult social care is a devolved matter. Expenditure data on adult social care is published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. It’s recent report, Personal Social Services Expenditure and Unit Costs - England, 2012-13, Final release (published on 10 December 2013, http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB13085) includes final data up to and including 2012/13. Annex C of this report calculates social care expenditure from all sources, including transfers from the NHS. Total net expenditure on adult social care from all source is:

Net current expenditure on adult social care (£billion, cash)
2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
15.09 15.74 16.08 15.55 15.35

DCLG collects budget data from councils showing how much they plan to spend on adult social care in the coming year, excluding transfers from the NHS. For 2013/14, councils plan to spend £14.65bn from their own budgets and the NHS will transfer £0.86bn for social care with a health benefit, meaning that total expenditure is expected to be £15.51bn.

Expenditure on Attendance Allowance, including outturn and forecast, is published on the Government website: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables. The latest expenditure figures, in nominal terms, have recently been published following the Autumn Statement and will be updated shortly to include real term figures and additional breakdowns in line with previous expenditure and caseload releases.

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