Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department plans to provide additional funding to the NHS to finance the lifting of the NHS pay cap.
The detail of 2018/19 pay remits for specific pay review bodies will be discussed and set out in due course. Any changes will need to be justified by evidence on recruitment and retention, or by productivity gains. The Department will continue to look at efficiency and value for money in our budgets.