Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Government will bring forward proposals for the (a) reform and (b) funding of adult social care.

Reform of adult social care is a complex area and a range of options are being considered.

The Government is committed to sustainable improvement of the adult social care system and will bring forward proposals this year.

As announced in the 2020 Spending Review, the Government is providing local authorities with access to over £1 billion of additional funding for social care in 2021/22. This includes £300 million of new grant funding for social care, on top of the £1 billion social care grant introduced in 2020/21.