NHS: Pay

(asked on 16th July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 170 of his Department's Annual Report 2018-19 on the increased NHS resource budget and to the Written Statement on NHS Workforce made on 21 March 2018, HCWS574, if he will clarify when the additional £4.2 billion was agreed by the Chancellor for the NHS Agenda for Change three year pay deal.


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Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 22nd July 2019

Funding for the multi-year (2018/19 – 2020/21) Agenda for Change (AfC) pay and contract reform deal was confirmed alongside the Government’s announcement via a Written Ministerial Statement (HCWS803) laid before the House on 27 June 2018 that the Government was accepting the collectively agreed deal. This statement followed the previous Written Ministerial Statement (HCWS574) laid before the house on 21 March 2018 in which additional funding for the AfC deal was committed to should trades union members agree to the deal.

In line with the Chancellor’s commitment at Budget 2017, the Government released the £800 million already set aside to support the first year of the deal for 2018/19 in England.

Funding for the remaining two years of the deal (2019/20 and 2020/21) has been made available as part of the long-term funding settlement for the National Health Service.

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