Local Authority Urgent and Emergency Care Support Fund 2023 to 2024: grant determination [No 31/6932]
Published 4 December 2023
Applies to England
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The Minister of State for Care (‘the Minister of State’), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003, makes the following determination:
Citation
- This determination may be cited as the Local Authority Urgent and Emergency Care Support Fund determination (2023 to 2024) No 31/6932.
Purpose of the grant
2. The purpose of this grant is to provide support to local authorities in England towards expenditure lawfully incurred or to be incurred by them, to fund additional services or interventions which support urgent and emergency care performance and resilience over the 2023 to 2024 winter period. This grant supports the delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services.
Determination
3. The Minister of State determines the authorities to which the grant is to be paid and the amount of grant to be paid. The authorities and the amounts are set out in annex A.
Treasury consent
4. Before making this determination in relation to local authorities in England, the Minister of State obtained the consent of HM Treasury.
Signed by authority of the Minister of State for Care
Ben Dyson, Director of Better Care Fund and Hospital Discharge (Department of Health and Social Care)
13 November 2023
Annex A: grant allocations to local authorities
Methodology
The maximum share that a local authority can claim has been calculated using the established Adult Social Care Relative Needs Formula (PDF, 49KB).
Allocations table 2023 to 2024
| Local authorities the grant will be paid to | Amount of grant to be paid |
|---|---|
| Barking and Dagenham | £428,384 |
| Bolton | £652,199 |
| Bracknell Forest | £169,764 |
| Bury | £383,179 |
| Cheshire East | £680,601 |
| Cheshire West and Chester | £688,380 |
| City of London | £22,891 |
| Cornwall | £1,310,582 |
| Devon | £1,677,546 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | £678,410 |
| Hackney | £659,190 |
| Halton | £299,864 |
| Hampshire | £2,230,685 |
| Havering | £471,840 |
| Herefordshire, County of | £413,161 |
| Hertfordshire | £1,939,759 |
| Isle of Wight | £359,582 |
| Kent | £2,892,188 |
| Kingston upon Hull, City of | £681,683 |
| Knowsley | £458,409 |
| Liverpool | £1,387,397 |
| Manchester | £1,250,840 |
| Medway | £468,175 |
| Newham | £688,941 |
| Norfolk | £1,960,526 |
| North East Lincolnshire | £365,819 |
| North Lincolnshire | £357,003 |
| North Yorkshire | £1,137,090 |
| Oldham | £526,579 |
| Plymouth | £602,468 |
| Portsmouth | £417,760 |
| Redbridge | £523,587 |
| Rochdale | £520,013 |
| Salford | £618,215 |
| Sefton | £715,436 |
| Shropshire | £653,945 |
| Slough | £241,837 |
| Southampton | £520,495 |
| St Helens | £451,746 |
| Staffordshire | £1,661,796 |
| Stockport | £602,051 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | £624,890 |
| Tameside | £541,443 |
| Telford and Wrekin | £363,277 |
| Torbay | £388,748 |
| Tower Hamlets | £687,323 |
| Trafford | £443,700 |
| Waltham Forest | £510,786 |
| Warrington | £386,476 |
| Wigan | £747,029 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | £223,541 |
| Wirral | £844,686 |
| Worcestershire | £1,118,803 |
| York | £343,342 |