Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 100598

Social Services

Tabled: 16 December 2025

Answered: 5 January 2026

Question

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

Stephen Kinnock

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...

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