PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health Services: Pay (24 April 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure parity between (a) clinical and (b) recently insourced nonclinical staff in the one-off covid bonus payment.

Asked by:
Christian Wakeford (Labour)

The non-consolidated payments, agreed as part of the Agenda for Change pay deal, covered staff directly employed by National Health Service organisations, for instance staff on permanent and fixed term contracts, as set out in Annex 1 of the handbook on Agenda for Change terms as of 31 March 2023. Those who joined the NHS after 31 March 2023 were ineligible for the award, regardless of their profession.

Answered by:
Andrew Stephenson (Conservative)
29 April 2024