Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects eligible post-graduate nurses to receive the £10,000 golden hello payment announced in May 2018.

In May 2018, we announced the intention to pay a ‘golden hello’ to nurses who started a postgraduate course in learning disability nursing, mental health nursing or district nursing in the 2018/19 academic year who subsequently qualified and were employed in these roles in the health and care sector.

The Government is considering the most effective way to administer and introduce any scheme to ensure it delivers on the original intent.