Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff are paid (a) above and (b) below the living wage by (i) Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (ii) Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust.

The Department does not hold this information.

The majority of trade unions that represent Agenda for Change staff recently agreed to accept the Government’s pay offer aimed at providing the most support to the lowest paid.

From April 2015, pay for the lowest paid National Health Service staff will increase from £14,300 to £15,100 per annum. Those on the lowest pay point will receive an increase of 5.6% and staff on the second pay point an increase of 3.1%.