Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that social enterprises can meet the Agenda for Change pay award without impacting service quality.

The Department is working with NHS England to provide additional funding to eligible non-National Health Service organisations, including social enterprises, to help deliver the one-off payments of the Agenda for Change pay deal to eligible staff. Eligible organisations are those that have been negatively financially impacted by the pay deal, and whose staff are employed on dynamically linked Agenda for Change contracts.