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The Improved Better Care Fund (Revenue) Grant Determination (2023-24): No 31/6644

The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety (鈥渢he Minister鈥�), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003, makes the following determination:

Citation

1. This determination may be cited as the Improved Better Care Fund (Revenue) Grant Determination (2023-24): No 31/6644.

Purpose of the grant

2. The purpose of the grant is to provide support to local authorities in England towards expenditure lawfully incurred or to be incurred by them.

Determination

3. The Minister determines the authorities to which grant is to be paid and the amount of grant to be paid as set out in Annex A of this determination.

4. The grant will be paid in monthly instalments.

Grant conditions

5. Pursuant to section 31(4) of the Local Government Act 2003, the Minister determines that the grant will be paid subject to the conditions in Annex B.

Treasury consent

6. Before making this determination in relation to local authorities in England, the Minister obtained the consent of the Treasury.

Signed by authority of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety

Lucy Pedrick, Deputy Director
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
April 2023

Annex A: Improved Better Care Fund grant allocations to local authorities 2023-24

Local authority*	Improved Better Care Fund 2023-24
Barking and Dagenham	拢10,707,003
Barnet	拢9,621,518
Barnsley	拢13,450,589
Bath and North East Somerset	拢4,903,011
Bedford	拢3,404,809
Bexley	拢6,616,137
Birmingham	拢67,918,344
Blackburn with Darwen	拢8,349,082
Blackpool	拢10,875,315
Bolton	拢14,875,163
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	拢13,438,749
Bracknell Forest	拢1,524,876
Bradford	拢23,388,296
Brent	拢13,344,692
Brighton And Hove	拢9,459,107
Bristol	拢17,015,720
Bromley	拢7,730,511
Buckinghamshire Council	拢5,040,826
Bury	拢7,628,448
Calderdale	拢8,436,399
Cambridgeshire	拢15,171,304
Camden	拢12,874,053
Central Bedfordshire	拢2,782,283
Cheshire East	拢8,705,870
Cheshire West and Chester	拢10,824,995
City of London	拢323,659
Cornwall	拢24,356,360
Coventry	拢15,787,327
Croydon	拢9,978,112
Cumberland**	拢14,616,407
Darlington	拢4,488,137
Derby	拢12,045,014
Derbyshire	拢35,732,659
Devon	拢29,126,836
Doncaster	拢16,310,384
Dorset Council	拢12,450,566
Dudley	拢16,627,704
Durham	拢30,866,855
Ealing	拢12,679,522
East Riding of Yorkshire	拢11,621,175
East Sussex	拢21,776,611
Enfield	拢11,726,014
Essex	拢46,380,576
Gateshead	拢11,386,636
Gloucestershire	拢20,024,675
Greenwich	拢15,434,166
Hackney	拢16,636,745
Halton***	鈥斺赌斺赌斺赌斺赌�
Hammersmith and Fulham	拢10,027,236
Hampshire	拢31,279,425
Haringey	拢9,806,399
Harrow	拢6,663,537
Hartlepool	拢5,358,232
Havering	拢6,824,956
Herefordshire	拢6,782,841
Hertfordshire	拢23,554,995
Hillingdon	拢7,467,803
Hounslow	拢8,174,245
Isle of Wight	拢6,180,112
Isles of Scilly	拢81,490
Islington	拢14,500,901
Kensington and Chelsea	拢7,661,937
Kent	拢50,014,663
Kingston upon Hull	拢17,920,422
Kingston upon Thames	拢1,839,849
Kirklees	拢17,821,765
Knowsley***	鈥斺赌斺赌斺赌斺赌�
Lambeth	拢14,946,411
Lancashire	拢54,946,963
Leeds	拢31,640,675
Leicester	拢17,556,473
Leicestershire	拢17,690,614
Lewisham	拢14,941,703
Lincolnshire	34,256,698
Liverpool***	鈥斺赌斺赌斺赌斺赌�
Luton	拢7,480,913
Manchester	拢31,749,311
Medway	拢7,307,509
Merton	拢5,009,679
Middlesbrough	拢8,645,870
Milton Keynes	拢6,176,149
Newcastle upon Tyne	拢16,873,501
Newham	拢17,192,573
Norfolk	拢39,618,564
North East Lincolnshire	拢8,058,576
North Lincolnshire	拢7,237,736
North Northamptonshire	拢11,523,432
North Somerset	拢6,985,854
North Tyneside	拢9,578,514
North Yorkshire**	拢17,328,446
Northumberland	拢12,495,752
Nottingham	拢16,602,807
Nottinghamshire	拢30,920,338
Oldham	拢11,187,623
Oxfordshire	拢10,705,289
Peterborough	拢7,479,861
Plymouth	拢12,933,061
Portsmouth	拢8,616,489
Reading	拢2,692,624
Redbridge	拢10,081,355
Redcar and Cleveland	拢6,927,994
Richmond upon Thames	拢776,431
Rochdale	拢12,277,980
Rotherham	拢14,480,543
Rutland	拢218,818
Salford	拢14,087,266
Sandwell	拢23,021,429
Sefton***	鈥斺赌斺赌斺赌斺赌�
Sheffield	拢29,289,802
Shropshire	拢11,863,403
Slough	拢3,989,414
Solihull	拢6,446,984
Somerset**	拢23,372,611
South Gloucestershire	拢4,632,638
South Tyneside	拢10,485,029
Southampton	拢10,704,789
Southend-on-Sea	拢7,797,498
Southwark	拢17,847,349
St. Helens***	鈥斺赌斺赌斺赌斺赌�
Staffordshire	拢32,709,077
Stockport	拢9,711,282
Stockton-on-Tees	拢7,171,908
Stoke-on-Trent	拢15,397,754
Suffolk	拢29,007,554
Sunderland	拢18,683,789
Surrey	拢11,408,352
Sutton	拢4,067,048
Swindon	拢5,395,489
Tameside	拢12,585,188
Telford and Wrekin	拢7,823,562
Thurrock	拢5,569,460
Torbay	拢8,837,572
Tower Hamlets	拢16,810,321
Trafford	拢8,224,415
Wakefield	拢17,422,475
Walsall	拢14,181,001
Waltham Forest	拢9,486,387
Wandsworth	拢16,985,220
Warrington	拢6,210,915
Warwickshire	拢15,133,281
West Berkshire	拢806,499
Westmorland and Furness**	拢9,303,840
West Northamptonshire	拢10,069,033
West Sussex	拢20,612,666
Westminster	拢17,649,014
Wigan	拢16,763,115
Wiltshire	拢10,242,097
Windsor and Maidenhead	拢2,256,388
Wirral	鈥斺赌斺赌斺赌斺赌�
Wokingham	拢471,832
Wolverhampton	拢14,761,161
Worcestershire	拢19,024,460
York	拢5,368,798
Total	拢2,039,256,346

*Funding paid to local authorities with responsibility for adult social care only.

**On 1 April 2023 the following unitary authorities will be established:

• Cumberland, comprising the areas of Allerdale, Carlisle, Copeland and part of Cumbria County Council.
• Westmorland and Furness, comprising the areas of Barrow-in-Furness, Eden, South Lakeland and part of Cumbria County Council.
• North Yorkshire, comprising the areas of Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough and Selby.
• Somerset, comprising the areas of Mendip, Sedgemoor, South Somerset and Somerset West and Taunton.

***The total iBCF allocation for Liverpool City Region councils ( 拢100,567,669) has been devolved as a part of the Business Rates Retention pilots and will not need to be paid out.

Allocations may not sum to exact totals due to rounding

Annex B: Grant conditions

1. In this Annex:

a. 鈥渁 recipient authority鈥� means a local authority listed in Annex A to this determination;

b. 鈥渢he Department鈥� means the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities;

c. 鈥渢he Minister鈥� means the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety

Use of grant

2. Grant paid to a recipient authority under this determination may be used only for the purposes of;

a. meeting adult social care needs,

b. reducing pressures on the NHS, including seasonal winter pressures

c. supporting people to be discharged from hospital when they are ready, and

d. ensuring that the social care provider market is supported.

3. A recipient authority must:

a. pool the grant funding into the local Better Care Fund, unless the authority has written Ministerial exemption;

b. work with the relevant health commissioners and providers to meet any discharge conditions set out in the 2023-25 Better Care Fund Policy Framework; and

c. report on spend as required, through the Better Care Fund reporting process (BCF).

Financial management

4. A recipient authority must maintain a sound system of internal financial controls.

5. If a recipient authority has any grounds for suspecting financial irregularity in the use of any grant paid under this funding agreement, it must notify the Department immediately, explain what steps are being taken to investigate the suspicion and keep the Department informed about the progress of the investigation. For these purposes 鈥渇inancial irregularity鈥� includes fraud or other impropriety, mismanagement, and the use of grant for purposes other than those for which it was provided.

Breach of conditions and recovery of grant

6. If a recipient authority fails to comply with any of these conditions, or if any overpayment is made under this grant or any amount is paid in error, the Secretary of State may reduce, suspend or withhold grant payments or require the repayment of the whole or any part of the grant monies paid, as may be determined by the Secretary of State and notified in writing to the authority. Such sum as has been notified will immediately become repayable to the Secretary of State who may set off the sum against any future amount due to the authority from central government.