Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of care workers needed in each of the next five years.

The Department commissioned the Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) to undertake a longer-term review of the adult social care workforce in England, to 2035. The report was published by CfWI and is available at:

http://www.cfwi.org.uk/publications/forecasting-the-adult-social-care-workforce-to-2035-workforce-intelligence-report/attachment.pdf