Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his Department's policy that healthcare staff on the Agenda for Change contract should receive the new pay settlement regardless if additional funding is provided.

All eligible staff should receive the payments agreed as part of the Agenda for Change deal. The pay offer to Agenda for Change staff, approved by a majority on the NHS Staff Council on 2 May, applied to staff directly employed by a National Health Service organisation as set out in Annex 1 of the NHS Employers handbook.

Staff employed at independent providers or other organisations who utilise the Agenda for Change terms and conditions may also be entitled to both the non-consolidated pay award for 2022/23 and the consolidated pay award for 2023/24 that staff working for eligible NHS organisations will receive. These organisations should consider their contractual obligations and review their commissioning contracts to consider whether and how to recover any additional cost pressures they now face. Funding to non-centrally funded organisations will be uplifted through their usual funding routes to reflect the 2023/24 pay award.