Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made recent progress on making one-off payments to healthcare staff.

The most recent one-off payments for National Health Service staff in England were agreed as part of the 2023 Agenda for Change pay deal. No future one-off payments are actively being considered.

The Department provided funding to cover the cost of these payments to eligible staff. It is the responsibility of local employing organisations to ensure correct payments are made to eligible staff.