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Social Services: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the increase in National Insurance contributions on the affordability of social care in rural villages.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
23 Jan 2025
Answer
27 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the increase in National Insurance contributions on the affordability of social care in rural villages.

  2. 23 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 27 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Government considered the cost pressures facing adult social care overall in England as part of the wider consideration of local government spending within the Spending Review process. To enable local authorities to deliver key services such as adult ...

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