Written questions

Social Services: Gender

Lords · Question HL4847 · Tabled 7 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 28 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Baroness Thornhill

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 3 February (HL3955), on what basis local authorities are required to collect information about gender and who requires that information.

Answer

Answered by Baroness Merron, 28 Feb 2025

The 2023 Client Level Data (CLD) Directions set out the specific data that local authorities are required to collect and submit to the Department, in order for the Department to produce national data on the provision of adult social care in England. The d...