Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people affected by the two year postponement of the introduction of the social care cap.

The Department’s impact assessment published during the consultation for this reform indicated that should this be deployed in October 2023, an additional 57,500 adult care users would receive some local authority funded support towards their care costs in October 2023. This consists of 50,000 older adults and 7,500 adults aged under 65 years old.