questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she plans to take to help ensure equitable pay for people (a) employed by social enterprises and (b) in other sectors delivering NHS services.
answerText: Independent providers, including social enterprises, are free to develop and adapt their own terms and conditions of employment. This includes the pay scales that they use and any non-consolidated pay awards they choose to make.
heading: NHS: Pay