Question follow-through · 47046

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with local authorities on updating the adult social care funding formula in the local government finance settlement for the 2026-27 financial year.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 22 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 24 Apr 2025
Answer: 30 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with local authorities on updating the adult social care funding formula in the local government finance settlement for the 2026-27 financial year.
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
MHCLG’s consultation on the principles and objectives of reform to the local government finance system, which was published alongside the Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement on the 18 December 2024, included material on the approach to distrib...

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