Housing: Older People
(asked on 2nd March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, (a) when the task force on older people’s housing announced in the Levelling Up White Paper will be formally established and (2) what role health and social care will play in that task force.
Answered by
Stuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The new taskforce on older people’s housing, as announced in the Levelling Up White Paper, will look at ways we can provide greater choice, quality and security of housing for older people. This work will be taken forward in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care, building on the commitments set out in their recent white paper on adult social care reform.
Further details regarding the remit of the taskforce, as well as the timing and frequency of meetings will be confirmed in due course.