§ Mr. MaddenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list by region all health trusts for which she has departmental responsibility showing(a) pay offers made, to date, to staff covered by national pay review machinery and (b) in how many cases pay offers are linked with financial penalties for unjustified absence; and if she will make a statement. [19044]
§ Mr. MaloneThe Review Body for Nursing Staff, Midwives, Health Visitors and Professions Allied to Medicine recommended that there should be local negotiations on pay in addition to a 1 per cent. increase in national rates of pay and similar offers have been made to most staff groups covered by negotiations in various Whitley councils. Negotiations on local pay are a matter for individual national health service trusts but I understand that in some 120 NHS trusts which have made offers about 75 per cent. are of around 3 per cent. overall.
§ Mrs. BeckettTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of trusts have made formal pay offers of 3 per cent. or more. [20619]
§ Mr. MaloneNegotiations on local pay are a matter for individual national health service trusts but I understand that in some 120 NHS trusts which have made offers about 75 per cent. are of around 3 per cent. overall.