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Care Homes and Home Care Services: Fees and Charges

Commons · Question 46264 · Tabled 17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 29 Apr 2025

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Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to amend the Care Act 2014 to exempt infected blood compensation scheme payments from (a) residential and (b) domiciliary care charges.

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 29 Apr 2025

My Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, does not consider that the Care Act 2014 needs to be amended to exempt Infected Blood Compensation Scheme payments because, under the Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resou...