More than four in five MPs want extra funding to be found for social care, polling reveals.

The survey by the Local Government Association (LGA) comes ahead of a green paper this autumn, which will examine how best to fund care of the elderly and disabled.

Earlier this year Theresa May announced a £20bn boost for the NHS. But plans about how best to fund long-term care of the elderly were pushed back, having last year proved politically toxic.

The poll of 150 MPs found that overall, 84 per cent wanted to see extra funds found for adult social care. Extra funding was backed by 79 per cent of Conservative MPs ad 95 per cent of Labour MPs. And 76 per cent of peers called for extra funds.

The polling did not ask where the funds should come from.

The green paper is likely to examine options such as a rise in income tax or national insurance, means testing of pensioner benefits such as winter fuel allowances or the introduction of voluntary or compulsory insurance schemes.

Mrs May’s attempt to address social care in last year’s general election manifesto backfired when a new tax on care in the home was branded a “dementia tax”.

The LGA said extra funds were needed to rescue the services caring for older and disabled people from collapse.