Public sector workers to get pay rise of up to 5.5pc

Public servants will get pay increments of up to 5-percent. To this end, the Chancellor says, the resources will be a paltry 5 per cent of those applied earlier. 
 
Hospitals and schools’ pay will rise by £9 billion, said Rachel Reeves to MPs, while accepting the independent pay review bodies’ conclusions. 
 
The Chancellor also said that the junior doctors would be given the NRF for 22 percent over two years so that they cease their strike. 
 
However, reductions of about £3 billion in depa rtmental budgets will be necessary to provide for the raise in the expenditure on pay. 
 
They charge that Ms Reeves said the Tories have not conduct a spending review since 2021. After this date, the rate of inflation has risen implying that to meet this cost, the employees will be paid more than the budgeted 2 percent. 
 
She said: “This has had a direct effect on the seat of budgets for pay in the public sector. ” 
 
The Government is planned to appear before the pay review bodies with evidence on affordability, but ludicrously, the previous government failed to offer any indications of what could or could not be afforded to the pay review bodies. 
 
“That is almost preposterous but that is, indeed, what they did. ” 
 
Ms Reeves revealed that while the former education secretary Gillian Keegan had the recommendations on her desk, Stood the recommendations on her desk and ‘instead of responding and dealing with the consequences, they shirked the decision that needed to be taken’. 
 
She said: I will not repeat what they did, this applies anywhere and at any time. We will not obscure the decisions that are required. 
 
“To do this, we need first to fully implement the independent pay review bodies’ recommendations, and the specifics of these awards are provided today, rewarding hardworking employees while addressing the need for hiring and retaining talent. ” 
 
Ms Reeves added that, similarly, strikes in NHS cost £1. 7 billion last year. 
 
She added: For this reason, I am happy to report that the Government has now made an offer to the junior doctors to which the BMA will shortly put to the vote. 
 
‘Thus, since the previous government did not include these recommendations in departmental plans, they will cost £9bn this year. ’ 
 
For the first challenge, therefore, it is necessary to set a target that all departments should make savings to fund as much of this as possible, up to £3 billion. 
 
She stated that all departments should reduce the consultancy spending on non-core business, and government interaction and lessen the back office expenses.