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Social Services: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure older people and self-funding care home residents receive timely information on their statutory rights under the Care Act 2014.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
4 Sept 2026
Answer
15 Sept 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Sept 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure older people and self-funding care home residents receive timely information on their statutory rights under the Care Act 2014.

  2. 4 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    On 29 July, as set out in the link below, the Prime Minister set out his objectives to reform the social care system, and brought forward the timetable for Baroness Casey’s commission to inform that reform programme:https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-s...

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Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.

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