Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the share of lifetime social care costs above £35,000 and £50,000 that is currently met by local authorities.

No such estimate has been made, but the wider issue raised by the Hon Member is under consideration 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 summer next year, and we will set out next steps once that report is received.