Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the data released by Skills for Care on 10 June that showed that (1) care home companies, and (2) local authorities, have high vacancy rates and are struggling with staff shortages within care homes.

We continue to monitor the monthly data released by Skills for Care with other operational data sources which indicate staff capacity in adult social care.

Skills for Care advise that its monthly data is unweighted and may not be representative, as it reflects those care providers which have updated the adult social care workforce dataset. The data does not include local authority staff responsible for assessments and the commissioning of care.