Written questions

Care Homes: Employers' Contributions and Minimum Wage

Commons · Question 54531 · Tabled 22 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 6 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Katie Lam

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of increasing (a) employer National Insurance Contributions and (b) the National Minimum Wage on care homes in (i) Kent and (ii) Weald of

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 6 Jun 2025

The Government has considered 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 c...