Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will provide funding for the total cost of the 2022 non-consolidated pay award for (a) not-for-profit, (b) social enterprise and (c) other organisations delivering (i) community healthcare and (ii) other NHS-funded services.

Independent providers, including not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises, are free to develop and adapt their own terms and conditions of employment. This includes the pay scales that they use and any non-consolidated pay awards they choose to make. It is for them to determine what is affordable within the financial model they operate, and how to recoup any additional costs they face if they choose to utilise the terms and conditions of NHS staff on the Agenda for Change contract.