Rishi Sunak has insisted that no decisions have been made yet on public sector pay rises, amid strikes by teachers and doctors
The independent bodies have recommended that teachers should receive a 6.5% pay rise for 2023-24.
The government does not have to accept the independent bodies' pay recommendations, and has rejected them four times before. But an argument that ministers often deployed for giving below-inflation pay rises last year was that they were following the pay recommendations. Junior doctors have demanded a 35% pay rise - much higher than the 6% that could be on offer. The BMA, the doctors' union, has said that this is a starting point for negotiations, but it is unclear if members would accept 6% even if it were offered.
Mr Sunak has promised to halve inflation by the end of the year. But inflations stayed stubbornly high at 8.7% last month despite expectations that it would come down.
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