| Heading: |
Care Homes: Fees and Charges |
| Question ID: |
1810294 |
| UIN: |
58121 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-06 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5216 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Caroline Voaden
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| Asking Member handle: |
carolinevoaden
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@carolinevoaden
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that care home fee rates set by local authorities include (a) the economic situation, (b) workforce and (c) inflation. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-16 |
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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: |
We recognise the importance of local authority fee rates to adult social care providers, which meet the costs of delivering care and enable providers to recruit and retain staff. We have therefore provided the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund to... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |