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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shops, the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup.

As expected, the autumn statement has not put smiles on people's faces.

Health and Social Care has been one of the few areas to see spending increases.

But the government has postponed its plans to cap social care costs for individuals for another two years.

Laura Coonsberg spoke to the Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barkley about the delay.

Now I want to read you an email from one of our viewers who's a senior NHS employee.

They've said, if you said to me you can have an extra billion for the NHS,

you have to instead give it to social care.

They write, this logjam is killing us and literally killing people.

How can you justify delaying the change that's required again?

Well the issue that they're highlighting there, the impact on the health of it,

is exactly the thing we're targeting.

That is why we're putting the money into social care,

8 billion pounds in 2024 into health and social care,

to address the fact that what happens in care has a direct impact on what is happening in other places.

But your predecessors and your colleagues people still in charge right now have acknowledged

it's not just about putting extra money in.

For years there's been agreement, there has to be change to the system.

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