Sir Andrew Dilnot: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- author of the social care reforms accepted by the previous government
- Quoted on
- Adult social care & reform
- Press citations held
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“Most people are not going to need much. A small number are going to need a lot. That, he argued, makes social care fundamentally an insurance issue - because it's the uncertainty, not the average cost, that can devastate a household's finances.”
What Sir Andrew Dilnot has said
“Most people are not going to need much. A small number are going to need a lot.”
Former chairman of the Commission on the Funding of Care and Support · Adult social care & reform · 30 Sept 2026 · UK adults warned of '£40,000' retirement costs ↗
“There's nothing you can do to protect yourself against care costs, you can't insure it because the private sector won't insure it, and by refusing to implement the cap that Conservatives are now saying they're not going to provide social insurance for it. So people will be left helpless knowing that what will happen is if they're unlucky enough to suffer the need for care costs, they'll be entirely on their own until they're down to the last £100,000, all of their wealth including their house.”
author of the social care reforms accepted by the previous government · Adult social care & reform · 29 Sept 2026 · ‘Dementia tax’: Conservative manifesto launch sparks social care controversy ↗
“I think it's perfectly, perfectly feasible for the government to expect … by the end of 2025, to say: 'Actually, we know what needs to be done, this is what we're going to do.'”
economist and architect of plans for a care costs cap in 2011 · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · Dilnot brands 2028 timeframe on social care commission “inappropriate length of time” ↗
Where Sir Andrew Dilnot has been quoted
- Expert warning for families facing unexpected retirement costswalesonline.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- UK adults warned of '£40,000' retirement costsmirror.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- ‘Dementia tax’: Conservative manifesto launch sparks social care controversypolitics.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
- Dilnot brands 2028 timeframe on social care commission “inappropriate length of time”carehomeprofessional.com · 8 Sept 2026
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