Question follow-through · 107247
Staff: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consideration his department has made of the potential merits of providing parity in pay and conditions between primary care nursing staff and their Agenda for Change colleagues in the NHS.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 26 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consideration his department has made of the potential merits of providing parity in pay and conditions between primary care nursing staff and their Agenda for Change colleagues in the NHS.
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Government is committed to ensuring the general practice nursing workforce is sustainable, supported and valued for the work they do.The Government looks to the independent pay review bodies for a pay recommendation for National Health Service staff, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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