Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many care workers have been employed in (a) London and (b) England in each of the last five years.
The number of care workers employed in London and England in each of the last five years is not collected by the Department.
Skills for Care, the partner in the sector skills council for social care, in England, collects data on the adult social care workforce. The number of care workers employed in England and London in each of the last five years is set out in the table below:
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
England Care workers | 700,000 | 735,000 | 775,000 | 810,000 | 800,000 |
London Care workers | 160,000 | 190,000 | 195,000 | 205,000 | 205,000 |
Source: Skills for Care, Size and structure of the adult social care sector in England