Question follow-through · 88915
Care Workers: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department taking to increase domestic recruitment of social care staff.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 14 Nov 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department taking to increase domestic recruitment of social care staff.
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2025
Answer published
English local authorities have responsibility under the Care Act 2014 to meet social care needs, and statutory guidance directs them to ensure there is sufficient workforce in adult social care.However, the Government recognises the scale of the reforms n...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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