As the Minister knows, there is widespread concern among key stakeholders, including voluntary organisations, care professionals and care providers, about the serious impact that the growing Crisis in Social Care Funding is having on providing good-quality care in residential homes.

Labour is sensibly calling for £700 million of that underspend to be given to councils immediately to tackle the Crisis in Social Care Funding.

My hon. Friends the Members for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Steve McCabe), for Easington (Grahame M. Morris) and for City of Durham (Roberta Blackman-Woods) spoke of the growing Crisis in Social Care Funding, the increase in care charges that family members must pay, and the pressures on services and support.

As well as problems with pensions, I have, for many years, been concerned about the looming Crisis in Social Care Funding.