Social Services: Living Wage
Commons · Question 80550 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Darren Paffey
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that increases in the National Living Wage are matched by sustainable funding for local authority social care budgets.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 22 Oct 2025
The Spending Review 2025 allows for an increase of over £4 billion of funding available for adult social care in 2028/29 compared to 2025/26.The Government took the cost pressures facing adult social care, including increases to the National Living Wage, ...