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Welsh health secretary calls for end to public sector pay cap

27 June 2017 By

Welsh health secretary Vaughan Gething has called on the UK Government to remove the 1% cap on annual pay rises for public sector staff.

The cap, which has also been applied when UK governments have decided GP contractual uplifts, has been in place since 2012.

The Labour Party called for its removal in the general election campaign, and health secretary Jeremy Hunt has indicated he would review it for nurses.

Mr Gething said: 'I’ve today written to the [Mr] Hunt, urging him to make the case to the UK Treasury to remove the cap on pay and make funds available across the UK to allow hard working NHS staff to receive a pay uplift of greater than 1%.

'Yesterday, the UK Government found more than £1bn to effectively end austerity in Northern Ireland. I fully expect them to make money available so that we can give our hardworking health service staff the pay rise they deserve. They deserve nothing less.'

BMA Wales GP Committee chair Dr Charlotte Jones said via Twitter that she 'fully supports' the call.

Readers' comments (2)

  • Cobblers

    Cobblers | Locum GP | Kent27 Jun 2017 10:07pm

    So a population of 1.8 Million gets approx 1 BILLION in a bung so the DUP covers a certain T May's arse so she can stay in power.

    Well rejoice NI GPs as hopefully some of that dosh will find its way to you.

    No doubt Scotland will want its billion plus bung too to enable the Scottish Conservative MPs to support T May. (Wait for it)

    And the English get fecked over again despite paying for it.

    And they wonder why people disengage from politics.

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  • Tom Robinson | GP Partner/Principal28 Jun 2017 10:17am

    Charlotte
    There are 11 welsh conservative MP's
    They are perfectly capable of doing a DUP
    Meeting with your good self to outline the problem would seem appropriate
    Failure on their part to act would be an unequivocal demonstration as to where their loyalties lie
    The patients would never again be able to claim they were not fully informed

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