Social Services: Minimum Wage

(asked on 1st February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent guidance his Department has provided to social care employers on pay; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of setting a national minimum pay rate for social care workers.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 6th February 2023

The Department has not provided any guidance to social care employers on pay and has no current plans to set a specific minimum wage for care workers.

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