Question follow-through · 20892
Social Services: Charities
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that fees paid by commissioners take into account changes in the costs faced by not-for-profit social care providers.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that fees paid by commissioners take into account changes in the costs faced by not-for-profit social care providers.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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23 Dec 2024
Answer published
Local authorities are best placed to understand and plan for the needs of their population, which is why, under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are tasked with the duty to shape their care market to meet the diverse needs of all local people. This in...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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