Chi Onwurah
Shadow Minister (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase recruitment of care staff in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne Central, (b) Newcastle City Council and (c) the North East.
Gillian Keegan
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
On 3 November 2021, we published details of a new £162.5 million Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund for local authorities to increase adult social care workforce capacity over winter. This includes £9,355,770 for North East across 12 local authorities, including £1,016,187 for Newcastle City Council, for Newcastle upon Tyne Central constituency.
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