Care Homes: Fees and Charges

Department of Health written question – answered at on 5 December 2017.

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Photo of Gill Furniss Gill Furniss Shadow Minister (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (Steel, Postal Affairs and Consumer Protection)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to provide local authorities with additional funding to meet the sustainability shortfall identified in the Competition and Market Authority's report of 30 November 2017 on the Care Home Market.

Photo of Jackie Doyle-Price Jackie Doyle-Price The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health

The Budget in March 2017 announced an additional £2 billion to be given to councils over the next three years for social care.

This additional funding means that councils have access in total to £9.25 billion more dedicated funding for social care over the next three years. One of the three key purposes of the additional funding is to assist councils in stabilising the local provider market.

The Care Act 2014 placed a duty on local authorities in England to shape their local markets to ensure that they are sustainable, diverse and offer high quality care and support for people in their local area.

The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) market study into care homes, published on 30 November 2017, raises some complex and important issues for the care home market. The Government will publish a formal response to the CMA report within 90 days and will take forward these complex issues as part of the Green Paper on adult social care which will be published in summer 2018.

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