Pay

(asked on 6th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to introduce an early pay rise for NHS (a) staff, (b) catering workers, (c) security guards and (d) other support staff working for private contractors; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 22nd July 2020

Over one million National Health Service staff continue to benefit from the three-year Agenda for Change pay deal agreed in partnership with NHS trade unions and employer representatives. This deal has delivered year on year pay increases for all NHS staff and has seen the lowest starting salary in the NHS increase by over 16% and the starting salary for a newly qualified nurse increase by over 12%.

The established mechanism for deciding pay increases in the NHS, including for catering workers and security guards directly employed by the NHS, is through the independent review body process. The NHS Pay Review Body and the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration make pay recommendations to the Government based on the levels of pay necessary to recruit and retain the staff the NHS needs, having regard to affordability. We expect to ask the review bodies to make recommendations next year for all staff groups not covered by multi-year pay deals.

For those staff working in non-NHS organisations, their employers remain free to develop and adopt the terms and conditions of employment, including pay, that best help them attract and retain the staff they need. It is open to NHS organisations to agree pay rates with the providers of their outsourced services and some do so.

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