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 in (a) Wirral West constituency and (b) England who have had debt management procedures, including automated reminders, letter before action and referral to debt collection agency, commenced against them for non-payment of (i) residential and (ii) non-residential social care charges in each of the last five financial years.

No estimate has been made. Local authorities are responsible for managing their own debt management procedures under the Care Act 2014. The Department does not hold data on the number of people who have had debt management procedures commenced against them at either national or local level.