Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department is taking steps to introduce workers' rights and protections for foster carers classed as self-employed; and if he will make a statement.

The Department for Education has policy responsibility for fostering and foster parents. We have no plans to issue a statement on the employment status of foster parents.

I refer the hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk to the answer I gave on 7 January 2020 to Question 333.