Written questions

Social Services: Employers' Contributions

Commons · Question 42234 · Tabled 28 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 2 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Dame Caroline Dinenage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment 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 i

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 2 Apr 2025

To enable local authorities to deliver key services such as adult social care, the Government is making available up to £3.7 billion of additional funding for social care authorities in 2025/26, which includes an £880 million increase in the Social Care G...