Kate Osamor – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Osamor on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure councils have adequate funding to protect social care following the implementation of the National Living Wage in April 2016.

Alistair Burt

Funding decisions for 2016/17 onwards, including for social care, are subject to the ongoing Spending Review which will review expenditure and future demand for services. This includes considerations such as the forthcoming implementation of the National Living Wage. The Spending Review will be published on 25 November 2015.