Question follow-through · 7577

Social Services: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of removing the cap on adult social care costs on the cost of adult social care.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 7 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 10 Oct 2024
Answer: 17 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

7 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of removing the cap on adult social care costs on the cost of adult social care.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2024
Answer published
We inherited a commitment to implement charging reform in October 2025, which included the cap on care costs. The full policy would have cost government an additional £4bn by 2030 on adult social care spend per year.Public finances are in their worst posi...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Processed Food and Slaughterhouses

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