NHS: Pay

(asked on 1st February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS staff are on the highest point of the Agenda for Change (AfC) payscale in (a) total and (b) each AfC pay band.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 6th February 2017

The information requested is in the following table.

Number and Proportion of National Health Service staff at the highest point in each Agenda for Change band

Headcount at September 2016

Pay Band

Number of staff

Band 1

31,389

Band 2

86,674

Band 3

76,634

Band 4

47,940

Band 5

103,808

Band 6

83,427

Band 7

56,983

Band 8a

18,701

Band 8b

8,036

Band 8c

4,109

Band 8d

2,097

Band 9

786

All

520,584

Source: NHS Digital, Provisional NHS Staff Earnings Estimates

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