PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Living Wage (16 July 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has commissioned on the effect on local authority budgets of paying the new National Living Wage to external staff commissioned by local authorities to provide adult social care.

Asked by:
Mr Clive Betts (Labour)

The impact of the new National Living Wage on local authority finances will be considered during the Spending Review as part of an overall assessment of spending pressures on local authorities.

Answered by:
Alistair Burt (Conservative)
21 July 2015