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Care Homes: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of delays experienced by families in receiving local authority financial assessments for care home placements; and what guidance his Department has issued to local autho

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 19 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 21 Jan 2026
Answer: 26 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

19 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of delays experienced by families in receiving local authority financial assessments for care home placements; and what guidance his Department has issued to local autho
21 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jan 2026
Answer published
Where local authorities decide to charge for the provision of care and support, they must follow the Care Act 2014 and the Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resources) Regulations 2014, and they must act under the Care and Support Statutory (CA...

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