Oral Question·Department of Health and Social Care
“What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the increase to employers' National Insurance contributions on social care.”
Tabled: 19 December 2024Answered: 7 January 2025
Asked by
Charlie Dewhirst
Conservative — Bridlington and The Wolds
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Care (Stephen Kinnock)
This Government will never shy away from taking the choices necessary to fix the public finances and rebuild our public services. It is thanks to those choices that we are able to invest an additional £3.7 billion in 2025-26 in local authorities that provide social care. We are also delivering the biggest uplift to the carer’s allowance since the 1970s, an £86 million uplift to the disabled facilities grant, and a fair pay agreement for care workers.