Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will include in the Social Care Commitment, a statement about employer compliance with minimum wage legislation.

To make the Social Care Commitment, employers must first commit to ensuring good employment practice. Employers are therefore agreeing to offer fair terms and conditions to all of their employees and to take active steps to ensure that their employment practice complies with employment legislation, including paying the National Minimum Wage as a minimum, and provides additional benefits or enhanced terms and conditions where possible. This is included under the terms and conditions of acceptance of the Social Care Commitment.