Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of collecting data on the number of working age adults in receipt of local authority funded social care support broken down by age (a) 18-25 and (b) 26-35.

We agree with the merits of collecting and publishing data on the number of working age adults receiving local authority funded social care support. We will publish data by age band, including the age bands 18 to 24 and 25 to 34, in line with existing practice in the Adult Social Care activity statistics publications.