Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people transitioning from self-funded to local authority-funded residential care are not financially disadvantaged by delays in assessments or funding decisions, including where substantial care home fee arrears accumulate during that period.

The issues raised by the Hon Member are all 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.