PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Services: Finance (21 February 2022)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of the proposed National Insurance contribution increase will be distributed to local authorities to provide additional support for adult social care.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

The Government set out its plans for the Health and Social Care Levy and the revenue it will raise in the Autumn Budget and Spending Review document published in October 2021.

For 2022-23, receipts from the Levy will be added to the existing NHS allocation for England, and will go to the NHS or equivalent in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as with the current NHS NICs allocation. From 2023-24 onwards, receipts from the Levy will go to the Department of Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities; NHS England and NHS Improvement; the Department of Health and Social Care; and those responsible for health and social care in the devolved administrations.

The Government will invest an additional £5.4 billion over three years to reform adult social care. This is in addition to the local government settlement at SR21 which set out that local authorities can also make use of over £1 billion of additional resource specifically for social care in 2022-23.

Further detail on the Government plans for adult social care spending can be found in Build Back Better: Our Plan for Health and Social Care and in the recently published white paper, People at the Heart of Care.

Answered by:
Sir Simon Clarke (Conservative)
28 February 2022