What assessment has the Welsh Government made of the cost of a 1 per cent average increase in the pay of a) the Welsh public sector workforce as a whole b) the NHS workforce and c) the teaching workforce in the current financial year?
Answered by Minister for Finance and Local Government | Answered on 23/12/2022
As I have previously set out, our provisional analysis is that each 1% increase in the wider Welsh public sector that the Welsh Government are responsible for pay policy costs around £100m of which for the NHS workforce, every 1% rise is estimated at roughly around £55m in costs. For the teaching workforce, for the remainder of this financial year our provisional analysis is estimated at roughly around £9m.