Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential economic impact of the social care cost cap on pensioners in Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council.
The Government has undertaken a full economic impact assessment on its charging reform proposals. This will be published in due course. That assessment considers the impact of the reforms on people with different levels of wealth. However, as this varies between and within regions, the impact assessment will not, therefore, consider the impact on people living in specific local authority areas.