Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish the (a) terms of reference and (b) timescale for the parallel workstream on working-age social care users.

The Department for Health and Social Care and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is currently listening to stakeholders on their views of what the priorities for this work should be, and working to build the evidence base. We are at a relatively early stage of this piece of work which will complement the Green Paper and will set out our plans once we are clearer on the nature of the output.