Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 81833

Nurses: Pay

Tabled: 14 October 2025

Answered: 11 November 2025

Question

Helen Grant

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that additional NHS funding leads to pay rises for (a) nurses and (b) other frontline staff.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The Department has remitted the independent pay review bodies (PRBs) to begin their work on pay recommendations for 2026/27 for nurses and other frontline National Health Service staff. The Government will carefully consider the PRB recommendations, which...

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