Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the Deloitte study on the effect of sleep-in back payments on the social care sector; and what timetable has been set for the production of the Frontier Economics and LaingBuisson study on that sector.

The Government has commissioned Frontier Economics and Laing Buisson to conduct a second phase of market analysis, which is due to be completed in April.

The Deloitte and Frontier Economics studies of sleep-in back pay liabilities form part of the evidence base that is being used to assess options and are subject to further analysis and refinement. Consequently there is no timetable for publication.