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NHS: Pay

Asked by Mr James FrithLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 6 May 2025UIN 48502

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the 2025-2026 pay review for NHS staff.

Answered by Karin Smyth

On 30 September 2024, the Government issued remit letters to the independent Pay Review Bodies (PRBs) covering the National Health Service’s staff groups, formally beginning the 2025/26 pay round months in advance of recent annual pay rounds. The Department published its written evidence to the PRBs covering the NHS’s staff groups for the 2025/26 pay round on 10 December 2024, and oral evidence sessions took place with those PRBs in January and February 2025.

We have now received the NHS Pay Review Body covering Agenda for Change staff and the Pay Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration’s reports. The Government is considering the recommendations and will respond formally in due course.

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