Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to ensure that users and providers of care services are involved in every stage of the Government’s plans for social care reform.

The white papers on adult social care system reform and integration will be published this year. Our ongoing engagement with the sector is supporting publication to this timescale, following the involvement of stakeholders in the development of the Health and Care Bill.

We are engaging in detail with local government colleagues, think tanks, providers of care and their representatives, professional bodies, unions and people with lived experience of care and their representatives. This includes dementia specific organisations.