PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Care Workers: Living Wage (17 July 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the additional annual costs to councils of paying the National Living Wage to care workers employed by private firms to provide adult social care services for local authorities from April 2016.

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)
22 July 2015