§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) whether clinical academic staff will receive the same pay increase, implemented from the same date, as their National Health Service colleagues;
(2) why there has been a delay in providing the funding for the 1986 pay increase for clinical academic staff.
§ Mr. Rymanasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will make it the policy of Her Majesty's Government that sufficient funds are made available to universities to enable clinical academic staff to receive future pay awards on the same date as their counterparts in the National Health Service; when he expects that funds will be made available to implement the 1986 pay award to clinical academic staff; and it he will make a statement;
(2) if, in the light of Her Majesty's Government's commitment to link clinical academic staff pay to that of equivalent National Health Service staff, he will explain the factors which governed the decision to pay National Health Service doctors their 1986 increase with their July pay before the timing of the payment of the 1986 increase to clinical academic staff had been determined; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. WaldenThe Government have said that they accept the principle that the pay of clinical academic staff should be linked to that of doctors and dentists in the National Health Service. But the pay levels of clinical academic staff are actually determined by the clinical academic staffs salaries committee in which the Government have no part. The Government have undertaken that, if a pay settlement is agreed in CASSC which provides increases for clinical academic staff equivalent to those in the National Health Service arising from the Doctors and Dentists Review Body report, it will provide the universities with additional funds to cover the cost of that settlement to the extent that it exceeds the pay 55W settlement for non-clinical academic staff. The sum involved cannot be determined until the two pay settlements have been agreed.