Care Homes: Staffing Debate
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Lord Watts
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Care Homes: Staffing
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Lord Markham (Con)
Yes, this is absolutely something that we talk to our Home Office colleagues about all the time. I believe that 15,000 people have already come through on this route in the last nine months or so; we are seeing a rate of about 1,500 a month. It is very important and something on which we are focused.
Lord Watts (Lab)
My Lords, rather than bringing in people from abroad, would it not be more effective to pay our own people proper wages with proper conditions, so that they want to work in this sector?