NHS: Strikes
Commons · Question 91040 · Tabled 13 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 10 Feb 2026
Question
Asked by Joe Robertson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2024 to Question 73326 on NHS: Strikes, if he will take steps to amend NHS contracts to ban the practice of NHS employees who are on strike from being paid by
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 10 Feb 2026
There are no current plans to prohibit National Health Service employees in England who undertake strike action from being paid for work by other NHS bodies on strike days.NHS staff who are on strike are not prevented by law from working for non-NHS bodie...