Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress her Department has made toward establishing the workforce pay framework for the proposed National Care Service.

The Hon. Member has raised a number of important issues in his questions, all of which are under consideration by the Department, as we develop our social care workforce plan for publication in the coming months, and by Baroness Casey’s commission, as she develops her proposals for a National Care Service. The Government has brought Baroness Casey’s final report forward to summer next year, and we will set out next steps once that report is received.