| Heading: |
Care Workers: Pay and Vacancies |
| Question ID: |
1753167 |
| UIN: |
22347 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-07 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4667 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mike Amesbury
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| Asking Member handle: |
MikeAmesburymp
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@MikeAmesburymp
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) the average wages paid to social care sector workers and (b) the current number of vacancies in the sector. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-10 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
Skills for Care reports that most care workers as the entry-level occupation are paid on or just above National Living Wage. Average or mean hourly pay for all workers in the sector was £12.36 in March 2024. Skills for Care also reported that the overall ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |