Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to return public sector pay to the real terms level of 2009-10 over the next five years.

Pay for most frontline workforces is set through an independent Pay Review Body process. These independent bodies consider a range of evidence when forming their recommendations, including the need to recruit, retain and motivate suitably able and qualified people; the financial circumstances of government; the Government’s policies for improving public services; and the government’s inflation target.

The Government recognises that public sector workers play a vital role in the running of our economy and in delivering world-class public services. That’s why, the Government accepted the headline 2023/24 pay recommendations of the independent Pay Review Bodies (PRBs) in full. For most workforces, accepting these recommendations has delivered the highest pay uplifts for their respective workforce in three decades.