Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in England employ their own personal assistants for health and social care at home.
Data from Skills for Care’s ‘Individual Employers and the Personal Assistant Workforce’ report estimates that in 2019/20, approximately 70,000 people in England employed their own personal assistant/s (PAs) with funding from social care direct payments, dispersed by local authorities. The Department does not hold data on numbers of individuals who employ PAs outside of social care direct payments.