PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Disability: Children (18 August 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what fiscal steps his Department is taking to ensure that every family with a disabled child can access the therapies and respite care they have missed out on during the covid-19 outbreak.

Asked by:
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)

The Department are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to look at how we can improve the provision of health and care services for disabled children.

The Government has given over £6 billion in un-ringfenced funding directly to councils in the period of 2020-21 and 2021-22 to support them with the impacts of COVID-19 spending pressures, including for children’s social care. Since 2019-2020, the Government has provided additional funding for the social care grant and is giving £1.7 billion in 2021-2022. Additionally, we have invested £6.6 billion from March to September 2021 to help National Health Service (NHS) recovery and an additional £1 billion in funding to the NHS in 2021-22 to reduce waiting times for patients, including disabled children, to access NHS services.

Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
10 September 2021