Health Services and Social Services: Living Wage
(asked on 15th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much additional funding they estimate the new national living wage will require (1) for the provision of publicly-funded adult social care, and (2) for the National Health Service, in the 2016–17, 2017–18 and 2018–19 financial years.
This question was answered on 21st July 2015
The costs of introducing the Living Wage will depend on the profile for its full introduction, which has not yet been decided. Any costs will be considered as part of the forthcoming Spending Review.