Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the potential average number of people per year who would have to sell their homes to pay for care after the introduction of the cap on care costs from October 2023.

The Government’s new £86,000 cap on personal care costs will allow more people to preserve their savings and assets. Nobody will be forced to sell their home to pay for their care in their lifetime. Where people do need to access housing wealth to pay for care, individuals are able to take out a Deferred Payment Agreement so that payments can be deducted from their estate after they die. Even when individuals do choose to access housing wealth, no-one will need to pay more than £86,000 for their personal care over the cost of their lifetime.