Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is he taking to help ensure vacancies in the care sector are filled in (a) Slough and (b) the South East.

On 3 November 2021, we published the Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund on GOV.UK, which includes £349,004 for Slough and £22,676,944 for South East across 19 local authorities, to help bolster adult social care workforce capacity over winter, including filling vacancies.

Local authority grant allocations can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-capacity-fund-for-adult-social-care/annex-c-grant-allocations