| Heading: |
Care Homes: Fees and Charges |
| Question ID: |
1792578 |
| UIN: |
44343 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-04 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5274 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sonia Kumar
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Sonia Kumar
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered increasing the threshold from which people must pay for their own care. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-10 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
The capital limits and the social care allowance rates are reviewed annually and the rates for 2025/26 were published in the Local Authority Circular in February 2025.We are launching an independent commission into adult social care later this month as pa... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |