Question follow-through · 95722
Social Care: Reviews
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the current working assumption for the Casey review into adult social care to start and conclude.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 1 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 15 Dec 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the current working assumption for the Casey review into adult social care to start and conclude.
3 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Independent Commission into Adult Social Care (the Commission), chaired by Baroness Louise Casey, formally began in April 2025. The Commission is in two phases: phase one will report in 2026, focusing on medium-term improvements using existing resourc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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