Question follow-through · 51623
Care Workers: Working Hours
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the use of opt-out agreements in the care sector on workplace standards.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the use of opt-out agreements in the care sector on workplace standards.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
The Department has not made, and has no current plans to make, an assessment of the potential impact of the use of opt-out agreements in the care sector on workplace standards. Most care workers are employed by private sector providers who set their terms...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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