The chairman of the Treasury Select Committee of MPs has written to chancellor Rishi Sunak requesting more information on how the social care cap will affect households and individuals.
Earlier this week, the government came under fire after it published an amendment to the social care cap first announced in September.
Giving evidence yesterday, Sir Andrew Dilnot told the committee the changes meant government savings would come “exclusively from the less well-off”.
He also added it was likely to emphasise the north-south split in the country, with those in the north being hit harder.
In the letter to Sunak, the chairman of the committee Mel Stride requested a regional and distributional analysis of the recent changes to adult social care charging.
Stride asked how many individuals the government expected would be at risk of selling their home under the proposed changes, and called for an assessment of the policy’s impact split by household and individual income.
The government has also been asked to provide details on the anticipated costs of – and spending on – the reform.
The hearing and correspondence forms part of the committee’s inquiry into the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021.