Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of providing adults using day care services with 30 hours of free care support each week.
We have no plans to make this assessment. The current charging system already provides support to those who need it most, with people with assets below £23,250 eligible for state financial support towards their care and support costs. The number of people able to access financial support will increase under the upcoming charging reforms, which will include an expansion of the means test.
When developing the charging reform policy, the Government considered various models and found that the planned changes provide the best balance between how many people are supported, how much they are supported and the cost to the taxpayer.