Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is making an assessment of the potential merits of making it his policy that the Government's forthcoming social care reforms will include social care services that are universally free at the point of need.

The Government is committed to sustainable improvement of the adult social care system. Our objectives for reform are to enable an affordable, high quality adult social care system that meets people’s needs. The reform of social care and its funding arrangements are complex areas and a range of options for how to deliver on this commitment are being considered. We will bring forward proposals in 2021.