Junior Doctors: Pay
(asked on 22nd April 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of awarding a pay rise to NHS junior doctors of (a) 5%, (b) 10%, (c) 15%, (d) 20%, (e) 25%, (f) 30% and (g) 35%.
The below table shows the estimated costs of various average pay rises for junior doctors above the existing 2023/24 pay scales which included an average pay rise of 8.8% :
Average pay rise | Estimated cost in 2024/25 |
5% | £400,000,000 |
10% | £900,000,000 |
15% | £1,300,000,000 |
20% | £1,700,000,000 |
25% | £2,100,000,000 |
30% | £2,600,000,000 |
35% | £3,000,000,000 |
These are estimates of the expected costs if the pay rise were given in 2024/25. They cover recurrent increases to the substantive pay bill, including employer national insurance and pension contributions, as well as knock-on impacts such as agency price increases. The exact cost will vary depending on the workforce size and composition.
These estimates do not take into account any wider considerations of the impact on wider National Health Service and public sector pay.