Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average starting salary for a nurse is in (a) Oxford city, (b) Oxfordshire and (c) Oxford West and Abingdon constituency.

Newly qualified nurses employed under Agenda for Change are placed in pay band 5. The basic annual minimum salary as at 1 April 2017 is £22,128. In addition many nurses work shifts and receive unsocial hours payments for hours worked outside of 6am to 8pm Monday to Friday. For those nurses who do work shifts, the mean payment in 2016/17 was £3,854¹. Newly qualified nurses are also eligible to receive seven annual pay increments averaging around 3.8%.

Note: 1 Table 3i NHS Staff Earnings Estimates to March 2017 https://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30002