Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether additional top-up funding will be made available in 2023 to enable NHS England to afford the next pay reward recommendation.

The independent Pay Review Body (PRB) process is the established mechanism for determining pay uplifts in the public sector, including staff working in the National Health Service. As the PRB is independent, we cannot pre-empt their future recommendations. We will carefully consider their reports when we receive them next year.