Coronavirus and Care Homes

Feryal Clark Excerpts
Tuesday 19th May 2020

(4 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Feryal Clark Portrait Feryal Clark (Enfield North) (Lab) [V]
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My constituent Sonya Kaygan lost her life to coronavirus. She was a highly skilled and committed careworker, but worked in a low-pay sector, caused by the near £8 billion cut to its funding in the past decade. Will the Secretary of State commit to ending the scandal of low pay in the care sector and reverse a decade of cuts to social care budgets, in honour of my constituent and others who have died doing their job, so that all careworkers are paid a fair wage and have the equipment to do their job safely?

Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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We have put an unprecedented amount of funding into social care during the crisis. There is the important challenge of ensuring that that reaches the frontline through local councils. We have also increased, through the increase in the living wage, the pay of the lowest paid across society and in social care. I am proud to have supported that.