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Home Care Services: Pay

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Question for Department for Communities and Local Government

UIN 209138, tabled on 11 September 2014

Question

Pat Glass
Labour
North West Durham
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with HM Revenue and Customs about launching proactive investigations into the non-payment of the national minimum wage in the home care sector.

Answer

Kris Hopkins
Conservative
Keighley
Commons

Answered on

13 October 2014

The Department of Health is responsible for policy on care and support, including the commissioning of social care services by local authorities. The commissioning of social care is a matter for individual local authorities.

The Care Quality Commission, as regulator of health and adult social care services, regulates social care providers to ensure services comply with essential standards of safety and quality.

My Department has not issued any guidance to local authorities about compliance with the National Minimum Wage by social care providers.HM Revenue and Customs has recently carried out an evaluation of compliance with the National Minimum Wage in the social care sector. This was published on 29 November 2013 and a copy has been placed in the Library of the House.

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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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