AQW 219/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health to outline the cost of ensuring pay parity for Northern Ireland with England in respect of health and social care staff to also support National Living Wage uplifts for financial year 2021/2022.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 14 January 2020
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 14 January 2020
- Answer due by
- 29 January 2020
- Answered
- 16 January 20202 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The Agenda for Change Refresh agreement covered the three year period from April 2018 to March 2021. The values of pay scales for 2021-22 are not yet known, therefore it is not possible at present to outline either the cost of maintaining parity into 2021/22 or of National Living Wage uplifts.