Oral Question·Northern Ireland Office
“What recent assessment he has made of the benefits of the Union for people in Northern Ireland.”
Tabled: 1 November 2022Answered: 9 November 2022
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
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.