Social Care

The whole purpose of a Green Paper is to allow us properly to debate and challenge all the options available. I am interested in what has happened in Scotland. The hon. Gentleman says that personal care is met by the Government there, but the lion’s share of costs for the elderly is of course the residential component, which is not met by them. We need to make sure that we are learning from the experience of everybody not only in these four nations, but across the world.