Question follow-through · 41119
NHS: Private Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with Independent Sector Providers on ensuring that staff (a) who deliver NHS services and (b) whose contracts do not include automatic pay uplifts receive any agreed
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with Independent Sector Providers on ensuring that staff (a) who deliver NHS services and (b) whose contracts do not include automatic pay uplifts receive any agreed
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has not held any discussions with independent providers on this topic.Independent organisations, such as social enterprises and general practices, are free to develop and adapt their own...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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