Workforce Development Fund

(asked on 9th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the annual budget is for the Workforce Development Fund for (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 17th December 2020

The Workforce Development Fund (WDF) is agreed annually as part of the Department’s funding for Skills for Care’s core revenue grant from the Department. In 2020-21 it is anticipated that the WDF will be funded with £11.82 million from this core funding.

As the WDF is funded from annual grant funding, the allocation for 2021-22 will be confirmed following confirmation of the Departmental budgets for that year.

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