Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's timescales are for introducing the social care cap.

As announced in the Autumn Statement, we listened to the concerns of local Government and took the difficult decision to delay the planned adult social care charging reforms. The funding intended for charging reform has been retained in local authority budgets to address current pressures and ensure that local authorities have the capacity and system readiness to deliver reform successfully.