Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's planned timescale is for publishing a response to the consultation entitled Care workforce pathway for adult social care, which closed in May 2023.

We intend to publish the first version of the Care Workforce Pathway, focused on staff in direct care roles, in autumn 2023. This will include a response to the call for evidence which closed in May 2023.