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Public Sector: Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help mitigate the impact of public sector pay settlements for 2025 on inflation.

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
11 Mar 2025
Answer
14 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 7 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help mitigate the impact of public sector pay settlements for 2025 on inflation.

  2. 11 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    For 2025-26, public sector pay awards for most frontline sector workforces are subject to the ongoing Pay Review Body (PRB) process. The majority of PRBs are required, per their terms of reference, to consider the government’s inflation target when formin...

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