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36.
Mr. Simon Hughes
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what would have been the cost of not staging last year's pay awards to (a) nurses, midwives and health visitors, (b) professions allied to medicine and (c) teachers. [66553]
Mr. Milburn
It would not have been possible to meet the commitment to keep within spending plans without staging last year?s recommendations by the pay review bodies.