Business of the House Debate
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Ben Bradshaw
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(12 years, 2 months ago)
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Mr Lansley
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving me an early opportunity to understand the encyclopaedic nature of business questions. The limits of my knowledge I have always been aware of, and it does not extend to morris dancing. I will draw the point that he raises on behalf of his constituents to the attention of my colleagues at the Department for Communities and Local Government, and ask them to respond to it.
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter) (Lab)
May we have a clear statement from the Government on their policy on regional pay? In May the Deputy Prime Minister said:
“There is going to be no regional pay system. That is not going to happen.”
Yet 20 health trusts in south-west England have announced that they intend to abandon the NHS’s national “Agenda for Change” pay structure and adopt just such a regional pay system. This is causing great concern and anger among thousands of NHS workers and their families across the south-west.