Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make it her policy to pay (a) nurses and (b) other healthcare and NHS staff for the extra hour they spend on shift when the clocks go back.

Most nurses and other healthcare staff that are directly employed by National Health Service organisations are covered by national terms and conditions of service. These national terms and conditions do not make specific provisions, including pay provisions, for shifts that cover the period when the clocks change twice a year. This is therefore a matter for NHS organisations to determine locally, taking steps to ensure that consistent approaches are taken.