Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has made available for social enterprises which deliver work on behalf of the NHS on whether they are contractually obliged to pay staff on agenda for change contracts the 2022/23 NHS non-consolidated pay awards.

As National Health Service social enterprises are independent providers, and contracts will vary from organisation to organisation, they remain free to develop and adopt the terms and conditions of employment that best help them attract and keep the staff they need. This includes the pay scales that they use.