Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to reform the social care charging system.

The Government remains committed to delivering adult social care charging reform, which will include the introduction of a cap on personal care costs and a significant expansion of the means test. As announced in the Autumn Statement, we have listened to the concerns of local Government and taken the difficult decision to delay the planned reforms. The funding has been retained in local authority budgets to help them meet current pressures.