Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the NHS Pension Scheme to help increase the recruitment and retention of clinical staff in Kent and Medway.

The NHS Pension Scheme provides generous retirement benefits for all NHS staff, including those in Kent and Medway. To retain senior clinicians affected by pension tax, we will resolve annual allowance tax charges and we expect employers to make contribution recycling available to affected staff. We will also remove barriers for staff retiring and returning to work and facilitate partial retirement.