AQW 53672/11-16

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 01/02/2016
Answered On Date: 10/03/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to detail how much his Department has spent on (i) the Return to Work for Nurses scheme; and (ii) a one per cent pay increase for nurses.

Answer:

My Department commissions 32 places each year on the Return to Practice Programme at a cost of £39,372. This year an additional £83,666 of funding will pay for an extra 68 places on the Programme.

The 1% 2015/16 non-consolidated award, as announced on 8 January 2016 for Agenda for Change (AfC) staff, will cost an estimated £10 million.