Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 7 September 2026 to Question 21932 on Social Services, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of establishing a fund or investment mechanism to support locally owned and community-based care providers to expand and modernise their services.

Baroness Casey has made clear that one of the core purposes of the Big Conversation on Care that she is leading is to hear from all individuals and organisations with proposals on how to reform the social care system, improve the provision of care, and fund those improvements. The Government will wait for the outcome of Baroness Casey’s review before considering next steps.