Personal Care at Home Bill

I can give the noble Lord the overall costs of this scheme, which, as we are well aware, are £670 million. I can also tell him how that will be allocated across local authorities. It will then be down to local authorities to decide the best way—within the framework of the assessment, the tool that I referred to earlier—for that to be distributed and what people would get under, for example, the reablement scheme. Another noble Lord referred to adaptations, which we will be discussing in greater detail later. I think that that noble Lord referred to the cost of a lift. Of course that would have to be offset against the potential cost of someone being in a care home for many years. So it is not possible for me to say £10,000, £1,000 or £500, because it would depend on the individual circumstances of that person. It may indeed be cost-effective to spend thousands of pounds on installing a stair lift in a home because it would mean that that person could stay at home and be independent and would not need to go into a care home, which may cost a great deal more. I did not have a piece of paper and I did not expect one which would tell me what the individual grant or availability would be for a person, because it would depend on the assessment for that person.