Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether backdated nurses settlement pay will be paid to nursing staff who were employed during the 2022-2023 financial year but left NHS employment before 31 March 2023.

Both non-consolidated elements of the Agenda for Change deal apply to staff directly employed by a National Health Service organisation (e.g. permanent and fixed-term contracts), as set out in Annex 1 of the NHS terms and conditions of service handbook as of 31 March 2023. Any individual who was not directly employed by an NHS organisation, as defined by the criteria above, will not be eligible for the non-consolidated elements.