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Written Question
Social Services: Pay
Monday 25th March 2024

Asked by: Matt Warman (Conservative - Boston and Skegness)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the cost to (a) the public purse and (b) social care providers of increasing pay for staff in the social care sector by 65p per hour.

Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

The Department has previously estimated that the cost to the public purse of raising minimum pay in adult social care to the National Living Wage plus 65p is approximately £600 million per year. This includes direct care staff only and excludes ancillary staff.

This estimate does not include the additional costs of higher pay which would be borne by the group of at least 221,000 ‘self-funders’ in care homes and using community care who pay for their own care.

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Bereavement Counselling

"“You have a lot of misfortune in your family.” Those, Mr Speaker, are the words that a registrar spoke to me when I registered the death of my mother, who died 20 years ago today, aged 53. Kind, compassionate, understated, he said them because just six weeks previously I had …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Mar 2019
Bereavement Counselling

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Mar 2019
Bereavement Counselling

"I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I agree with him and will mention that issue in a few moments.

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Mar 2019
Bereavement Counselling

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Mar 2019
Bereavement Counselling

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