Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains his policy to implement the policies in the white paper entitled People at the Heart of Care, published on 1 December 2021.

This Government remains committed to the 10-year vision for adult social care set out in the People at the Heart of Care white paper. We have made progress on implementing this vision since the white paper was published, including by supporting workforce capacity, increasing digitisation, developing our approach for improving oversight and enhancing the collection and use of data.

In spring 2023, the Government will publish a plan for adult social care system reform. This will set out how we will build on the progress so far to implement our vision.