Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to change the funding of care homes.

We will work to address the challenges of social care for our ageing population, bringing forward proposals for consultation to build widespread support.

The consultation will set out options to improve the social care system and to put it on a more secure financial footing, supporting people, families and communities to prepare for old age, and address issues related to the quality of care and variation in practice. Further information on this will be made available shortly.