Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the Casey Commission on social care will consult local government.

We are launching an independent commission into adult social care as part of our critical first steps towards delivering a National Care Service. The commission will begin in April 2025.

The commission will start a national conversation about what care and support working age adults, older people, and their families should expect from adult social care. Chaired by Baroness Louise Casey and reporting to the Prime Minister, we expect the commission will work with people who draw on care, their families, staff, politicians, and the public, private, and third sector to make clear recommendations for how to rebuild the adult social care system to meet the current and future needs of the population. This will include local government. The details of this will be developed by the commission in due course.