Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the £20 billion to be allocated to the NHS by 2023 will include the £4.2 billion for the NHS pay settlement.

The Prime Minister has announced a five-year funding agreement which will see the National Health Service budget grow by £20 billion, in real terms, by 2023-24. The 2018-19 baseline for this funding agreement has been uplifted by £800 million to take account of additional funding that the Government will provide to the NHS in the current financial year to cover Agenda for Change pay deal costs – as previously announced. The additional funding to cover Agenda for Change pay deal costs in 2019-20 and 2020-21 is included within the planned additions to resource budgets for NHS England in 2019-20 and 2020-21.