Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of the introduction of the National Living Wage on charitable residential care homes who do not benefit from the reduction in corporation tax rates.

The National Living Wage supports the UK in moving from a low wage, high tax, high welfare society to a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare society.

We are working with employers in the social care sector, including care providers from the voluntary sector, to understand how the introduction of the National Living Wage will affect them.