Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, in preparing the forthcoming Green Paper on the future funding of adult social care, whether more emphasis will be placed on giving people greater control over the care they receive, and making paying for social care fairer and less dependent on the illness a person contracts.

The Green Paper on Care and Support will include a focus on the principles of whole-person, integrated care and giving people receiving support the highest possible control.

The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone has access to the care and support they need, but we are clear that there should continue to be a principle of shared responsibility, and that people should continue to expect to contribute to their care as part of preparing for later life.

The Green Paper will bring forward ideas for including an element of risk pooling in the system, which will help to protect people from the highest costs. This will include proposals to place a limit on the care costs individuals face.