Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 February 2016 to Question 27828, what the average change in the level of pay will be for those junior doctors not expected to experience a rise in earnings as a result of pay protection.

The average change in the level of pay for those junior doctors currently in Foundation programme of Specialty/Core Training Levels 1 and 2 receiving pay protection will be zero compared with their earnings on 31 October 2015. The exception to this will be the 1% of junior doctors receiving a band 3 payment for working in breach of the current contract. Junior doctors currently in Specialty Training level 3 and above will be paid according to the current contract terms until the end of transition.