HC Deb 28 January 1999 vol 324 c348W
36. Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what would have been the cost of not staging last year's pay awards to(a) nurses, midwives and health visitors, (b) professions allied to medicine and (c) teachers. [66553]

Mr. Milburn

It would not have been possible to meet the commitment to keep within spending plans without staging last year?s recommendations by the pay review bodies.

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