PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Respite Care (24 July 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money each local authority received via clinical commissioning groups in 2017-18 to provide breaks for carers as a proportion of the £130 million of Government funding for carers' breaks included annually in the Better Care Fund.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

The clinical commissioning groups minimum allocation to the Better Care Fund (BCF) in 2017-18 includes £130 million of funds for the provision of carers’ breaks.

Local BCF plans set out the level of resource that will be dedicated to carer-specific support, including carers’ breaks, and identify how the chosen methods for supporting carers will help to meet key outcomes. The exact breakdown on spend for carers breaks is not collected centrally.

Answered by:
Dame Caroline Dinenage (Conservative)
5 September 2018