Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the scope of the Government’s independent commission into adult social care include the means testing which underpins the Disabled Facilities Grant.

We have launched an independent commission into adult social care as part of our first steps towards delivering a National Care Service.

Baroness Casey and her team will look at what fundamental reforms will be needed, what social care should look like, who should it serve, and who should be responsible and accountable for its services.

The Terms of Reference for the commission are sufficiently broad to enable Baroness Casey to independently consider how to build a social care system fit for the future, including aspects of the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) if she sees fit.

To ensure the DFG is as effective as possible, we continue to keep different aspects of the grant, including the means test, under consideration.