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Social Services: Fees and Charges

Commons · Question 72870 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 12 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Jess Brown-Fuller

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to (a) implement the Care Act 2014 provisions on protecting individuals from unaffordable care costs and (b) introduce a more generous means test for social care funding.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 12 Sep 2025

In July 2024, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that the planned adult social care charging reforms, which were inherited from the previous government, would not be taken forward in October 2025.The means test thresholds for support with adult soc...