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HANSARDNHS Staff PayI thank my hon. Friend; I know that he does tremendous work on the frontline. He makes a really important point: beyond pay, the question of what other support we are giving to…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayThe Government have submitted our evidence to the pay review body of what we can afford for NHS pay, but the review bodies will look at a wide range of evidence on what is the…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayAbsolutely. We submitted our evidence to the pay review body last week, which included the affordable pay envelope from the Government. The pay review body will look at a wide…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. So many businesses have been so hard hit by the pandemic, and it is vital that we support not only the livelihoods of individuals who work in…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayI thank my hon. Friend, who makes a really important point. The balance between nationally set pay and local pay has been a point of much debate over the years. There are pros and…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayI thank my hon. Friend very much for her question. Nurses are just a part of the workforce being considered in the pay review, which involves over 1 million staff. About 300,000…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayIn our submission to the pay review bodies we said we have a funding envelope to enable a 1% pay rise for NHS staff. As I have said to other Members, the pay review bodies will…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayI completely agree with my right hon. Friend about the heroic efforts of NHS staff at hospitals and primary care and community trusts across the country, including the Princess…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that we should be thinking about the whole workforce. As the Minister with oversight of social care, I have many conversations with that sector…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayIt is absolutely right that we invested in ensuring that we could supply PPE to the NHS and the social care workforce during this extremely challenging time. There was a global…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayThe hon. Gentleman makes a really important point about the retention of staff. I am working to make sure that we have another 50,000 nurses in the NHS by the end of this…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that, in addition to the pay settlement that we will reach through this pay review process, there are many staff who will be eligible for pay…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayI must remind the hon. Gentleman of the difficult times that we are living in: many thousands of people have, sadly, lost their jobs through covid and others have had pay cuts. We…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayAs my right hon. Friend says, most of the public sector—and that includes the police—is regrettably under a pay freeze for the coming year because of the challenging times we find…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayWe have delivered on the commitments in the multi-year pay deal for “Agenda for Change” staff, including nurses. That includes the 12% pay rise for newly qualified nurses,…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayThe hon. Lady talks about the NHS workforce. One of the fabulous things we have seen throughout the pandemic—I am really grateful to all those who work in the NHS for this—is a…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayI thank my hon. Friend for his question. I am smiling, because it is not the first time that he has mentioned to me a German-style social care system. I absolutely appreciate the…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayThe pay conversation that we are having at the moment is indeed about nurses—who are a fabulous part of our NHS workforce, and I cannot thank them enough—but it is also about the…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayI am absolutely committed to increasing the NHS workforce. As I mentioned in my statement, we already have 10,000 more nurses than a year ago; and 6,500 more doctors and over…08 Mar 2021HANSARDNHS Staff PayActually, talking of anger, it is probably not very helpful for many of those on the Opposition Benches to be fuelling a level of anger by calling a pay rise a pay cut. We are…08 Mar 2021