Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure NHS staff are paid fairly.
The Pay Review Body (PRB) process is the established mechanism for determining pay uplifts in the public sector, outside of negotiating multi-year pay and contract reform deals. We have asked the PRBs for recommendations for National Health Service staff in scope for 2023/2024. As the PRBs are independent, we cannot pre-empt their recommendations and we will carefully consider their reports when we receive them later this year.