Question follow-through · 128948
Social Services: Departmental Responsibilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if it will make an assessment of the potential merits of transferring control of social care to the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government to provide services at the local level.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if it will make an assessment of the potential merits of transferring control of social care to the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government to provide services at the local level.
23 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2026
Answer published
No estimation or assessment has been made. The Department currently has responsibility for social care policy. Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities have a duty to meet the eligible care and support needs of people in their local area.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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