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Written Question
NHS: Pay
Thursday 2nd March 2023

Asked by: Beth Winter (Labour - Cynon Valley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact on industrial relations and service provision of the 3.5 percent pay increase recommendation to the NHS Pay Review Body for 2023-24, set out the department's evidence document of 21 February 2023.

Answered by Will Quince

The Government hugely values our National Health Service staff and as set out in the NHS Public Review Body (NHSPRB) evidence for 2023/24, have committed to give them a pay rise in the next financial year. In July 2022 the Government accepted in full the NHSPRB recommendations for 2022/23 and backdated all pay uplifts to 1 April 2022.

We recognise that global economic headwinds are putting household budgets under additional pressure this year. The Government will talk to all unions who are willing to discuss what is fair and reasonable recognising the vital role public sector workers play but also the wider economic pressures facing the United Kingdom.

Ultimately, the Pay Review Bodies will consider the evidence submitted by Government alongside other evidence and base their recommendations on several factors including the economic context, cost of living, recruitment and retention, morale, and motivation of NHS staff.


Written Question
Teachers: Pay
Thursday 1st November 2018

Asked by: Baroness Pinnock (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the accuracy of the analysis provided by the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the teachers' pay award announced in July which states that “about 60 per cent of teachers will receive below-inflation awards of 2 per cent, or in the case of school leaders 1.5 per cent".

Answered by Lord Agnew of Oulton

For all pay awards, the government considered the wider pressures on public spending and the need to ensure they were fair for both public sector workers and the taxpayer. The government provided for a significant uplift in starting salaries to focus on raising pay for the lowest paid teachers at the start of their careers.

43.5% of the teacher workforce, or the 199,000 teachers currently on the Unqualified Teacher and Main Pay Range ranges will see an uplift of 3.5% to their pay range. The remaining 56.5% will see an increase to their pay ranges of between 1.5% and 2%.

Arrangements for teachers’ pay have been fundamentally reformed over the last four years following recommendations from the School Teachers’ Review Body. The freedoms the government have given headteachers over pay mean that there are no restrictions on increases within the minima and maxima of the national pay ranges. Schools are able to choose to give teachers a higher pay rise where this is appropriate to their particular local context and budget, subject to performance.