Social Services
Commons · Question 100598 · Tabled 16 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by James MacCleary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential cumulative impact of changes to (a) the National Living Wage, (b) employers' National Insurance contributions and (c) the recruitment of overseas
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 5 Jan 2026
The Government took the cost pressures facing adult social care, including independent providers, into account as part of the wider consideration of local government funding at the Spending Review.The provisional Local Government Finance Settlement confir...