Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will take steps to work with HM Treasury to ensure that, where future savings in the attendance allowance budget result from greater numbers of care home residents starting to qualify for local authority-funded care, those savings could be used to help local authorities with their wider responsibilities to meet care and support needs.

We will continue to work with HM Treasury and the Department of Health to consider any impacts that the Care Act 2014 may have on benefits.