Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of pay of public sector workers since 2010; and if he will make a statement.

The Government’s pay policy has always been designed to strike the right balance between being fair to public servants and being fair to all those, including public sector workers themselves, whose taxes pay for them.

That approach has not changed, and the Government continually assesses that careful balance. The current assessment is that salaries in the public sector are, on average, comparable to those in the private sector with the additional benefit of higher pension entitlements in many cases.

Further details were made available in the House libraries in response to a written question from the Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 19 July 2017.