Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to provide funding for (a) the pay rise for NHS staff that was backdated to April 2023 and (b) the NHS backlog bonus to staff employed by (i) social enterprises and (ii) local authorities delivering NHS services.

For the 2023/24 consolidated pay uplift for Agenda for Change staff, funding will be provided to National Health Service providers through the usual routes. The 2022/23 non-consolidated pay uplift for Agenda for Change staff applies to staff directly employed by an NHS organisation as set out in Annex 1 of the NHS Employers handbook. Independent providers and local authorities were not eligible to receive funding for the non-consolidated awards. Where non NHS employers have chosen to adopt the same terms and conditions as offered on the Agenda for Change contract, they should work with commissioners to determine handling of any additional costs in line with local contracts.