Question follow-through · 6254
Hospices: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that hospices can implement staff pay awards in line with national Agenda for Change pay scales, where these staff are delivering NHS contracted services.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2026 · 7 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
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that hospices can implement staff pay awards in line with national Agenda for Change pay scales, where these staff are delivering NHS contracted services.
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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9 Jun 2026
Answer published
Hospices, as independent organisations, are free to develop and adapt their own terms and conditions of employment, including pay scales and, therefore, it is for them to determine what is affordable within the financial model they operate and how to reco...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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