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...