Question follow-through · 58121
Care Homes: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that care home fee rates set by local authorities include (a) the economic situation, (b) workforce and (c) inflation.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 6 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that care home fee rates set by local authorities include (a) the economic situation, (b) workforce and (c) inflation.
10 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
We recognise the importance of local authority fee rates to adult social care providers, which meet the costs of delivering care and enable providers to recruit and retain staff. We have therefore provided the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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