Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how his Department plans to fund the proposed cap on residential care costs.

The Government remains committed to introducing a cap on care costs and extension of means tested support from April 2020.

The Spending Review 2015 set budgets for the next four years to 2019-20. The final year includes funding to cover the costs of local authorities preparing to implement the changes the following year. Decisions about the allocation of funding for these reforms will be confirmed nearer the time.