Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many consultations on adult social care have been commissioned by his Department in the last 20 years; and if he will provide a list of those consultations.
The Department has commissioned the following consultations on adult social care in the last 20 years:
2005 - Green Paper, Independence, Wellbeing and Choice;
2009 - Green Paper, Shaping the Future of Care Together;
2010 - White Paper, Building the National Care Service;
2012 - White Paper, Caring for our Future; and
2015 – Green Paper, Consultation on the detail of the cap system.