{"value":{"id":1604792,"askingMemberId":4026,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2023-03-16T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2023-03-20T00:00:00","uin":"167082","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people currently in receipt of personal budgets ask their local authority to pay the money to another organisation.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4527,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2023-03-31T00:00:00","answerText":"

The care and support statutory guidance sets out that every adult whose social care and support needs are met by their local authority must receive a personal budget as part of their care and support plan, or support plan.

NHS Digital’s Short and Long Term (SALT) Data Returns and Adult Social Care Finance Returns (ASC-FR) contain data on personal budgets and direct payments, but not the specific data points required to directly answer these questions. A complete list of SALT and ASC-FR publications is available at the following link:

www.digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-social-care-activity-and-finance-report

Table 34 of the Data Tables resource for the 2021/22 release includes some data regarding the number of people in receipt of personal budgets.

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