Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 80550
Social Services: Living Wage
Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 22 October 2025
Question
Darren Paffey
Labour — Southampton Itchen
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
Stephen KinnockThe 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, ...
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