questionText: 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.
answerText: The 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, ...
heading: Social Services: Living Wage