Social Services: Coronavirus

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 22 November 2021.

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Photo of Navendu Mishra Navendu Mishra Labour, Stockport

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor on the potential merits of increasing funding for the social care sector during the covid-19 outbreak.

Photo of Navendu Mishra Navendu Mishra Labour, Stockport

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the adequacy of funding for social care in the context of the covid-19 outbreak.

Photo of Gillian Keegan Gillian Keegan Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Ministers and officials from the Department meet frequently with HM Treasury regarding the social care system.

Since May 2020, we have made available more than £2.5 billion to support the adult social care sector and prevent the transmission of COVID-19. From March 2020, we have committed over £6 billion to councils through un-ringfenced grants to tackle the impact of COVID-19 on services, including adult social care. These pressures are kept under review and the need for further support will be assessed through the winter.

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