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Doctors: Pay

Asked by John GlenConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 27 November 2024UIN 14631

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2024 to Question 8130 on Public Sector: Pay, what the gross cost was of the doctors pay deal.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The resident doctors accepted the Government’s pay offer to provide an additional pay uplift worth an average of 4.05% on top of their existing pay award for 2023/24, which has an estimated gross cost to the Department of approximately £350 million per year.

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