Written questions

Social Services: Employers' Contributions

Commons · Question 41027 · Tabled 25 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 28 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Dame Caroline Dinenage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill on the number of local authority funded adult social care beds.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 28 Mar 2025

The Government did consider the cost pressures facing adult social care as part of the wider consideration of local government spending within the Spending Review process in 2024. To enable local authorities to deliver key services such as adult social ca...