PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Carers: Mileage Allowances (17 February 2023)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps with local authorities to help social care providers to increase the mileage allowance paid to care workers.
Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)
Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)
Answer
The Government is making available up to £7.5 billion over two years to support adult social care and discharge. Local authorities, who work with care providers to determine fee rates, have discretion about how to use this historic increase in funding to best address the pressures in their local areas.
Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
27 February 2023
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