Claim: Last year, Tory MPs promised, budgeted and voted into law a 2.1% pay rise for NHS staff.
Fact-check: Clearing up the NHS pay debate - Full Fact
Verdict: not quite right. parliament passed a law which committed the government to providing a minimum level of funding for the nhs each year until 2023/24. but it didn't specify how exactly that money would be spent.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2021-03-12T00:00:00