Question follow-through · 902290

Pay Settlements

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will increase funding for public services to help ensure the affordability of pay awards.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
21 Jan 2025
Answer
21 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will increase funding for public services to help ensure the affordability of pay awards.

  2. 21 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    I refer the hon Member to my answer during HMT topical questions today (21 January 2025).

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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