Social Services: Costs

(asked on 24th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the cost of social care for elderly people.


Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 1st February 2017

Social care is a devolved matter. In England in 2015/16, 872,540 people already received long term support from their local authority to help meet the cost of their care and a further 245,255 received short term support. In addition, we remain committed to introducing a cap on care costs and extension of means tested support, which will be implemented from April 2020.

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