Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the additional funding needs of social care reform from (1) reallocation of existing resources, (2) additional service user contributions, or (3) new money to be allocated in future Budget settlements; and what approximate share of total funding each would provide.

On 29 July, the Prime Minister set out his objectives to reform the social care system and brought forward the timetable for Baroness Casey’s commission to inform that reform programme. We will update Parliament in due course on the proposals resulting from that work, and we will continue working to build a political and public consensus behind those reforms.