Question follow-through · 48800
Carers: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to introduce regulations for the use of solo carers for elderly people.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 6 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to introduce regulations for the use of solo carers for elderly people.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
We have understood that the term solo carers refers to personal assistants. The Department has no current plans to introduce regulations for the use of solo carers for elderly people.English local authorities have responsibility under the Care Act 2014 to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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