Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on maintaining continuity of care for residents who transition from self-funding to local authority-funded residential care.

The issues raised by the Hon Member will be among those considered by Baroness Casey’s commission, as she develops her proposals for a National Care Service. The Government has brought Baroness Casey’s final report forward to next summer, and we will set out next steps once that report is received.