Question follow-through · 39944
Social Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve adult social care provision.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve adult social care provision.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
We recognise the challenges facing the adult social care system, and we are taking immediate action to improve the situation. These actions include:making up to £3.7 billion of additional funding available for social care authorities in 2025/26, including...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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