Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support care home workers.

I would like to recognise the enormous contribution care home workers, and all the care workforce, make to this country.

In our People at the Heart of Care White Paper, we set out a landmark investment of £500 million to develop and support the workforce.

This a five-fold increase in public spending on workforce training, creating hundreds of thousands of training places with clear pathways for development and progression.

These measures will make a real difference to the support that care workers get to develop and progress their career.