Not linked directly to the additional funding provided to local government, but another source of information that provides some context in terms of overall trends in expenditure in adult social care, is an annual Local Government Benchmarking Framework (LGBF) overview report produced by the Improvement Service. The LGBF overview report for 2020/21, indicates that adult social care expenditure increased by £209.3 million between 2019/20 and 2020/21, a 5.9 per cent real terms (see Table 1 on the next page copied from page 19 of the report).