Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to accelerate the pay review process so that NHS staff in North East Somerset and Hanham constituency receive uplifts nearer the start of the financial year.

The Government has taken a number of steps to accelerate the National Health Service pay review process, aiming to ensure that pay uplifts for staff are implemented as close to the start of the financial year as possible.

Having accepted the 2025/26 headline pay recommendations in full, the Government issued remit letters to the Pay Review Bodies in July 2025 formally beginning the 2026/27 pay round over two months earlier than last year.

We have now published our written evidence reports for the three pay review bodies, the NHS Pay Review Body, the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration, and the Senior Salaries Review Body, which cover pay for most NHS staff. Our oral evidence sessions that follow publication of the written evidence took place in November and December 2025. This puts us on track to meet my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s ambition to announce and implement pay uplifts into pay packets as close to 1 April 2026 as possible.