External homecare providers and workers

Please could you answer the following FOI requests?

a) Does your council currently make it a contractual condition that your externally commissioned homecare providers must pay their homecare workers for their travel time?

Yes

b) Please list the steps that your council has taken to ensure that your externally commissioned homecare providers are paying their home care workers at least the National Living Wage.

It is a contractual requirement of our Primary Providers to ensure that this is delivered through their contracts with the market and we monitor this with them as part of contract monitoring.