- 18 December 2022
“We also need to give a pay rise to nurses on the lowest pay, which is why we gave them, I think 9.3%, £1,400 across the board”
Oliver Dowden, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
- 15 December 2022
“For every 1% we put pay up we have to find £800 million.”
Maria Caulfield, Health Minister, Radio 4’s Today Programme
- 15 December 2022
“If we matched, say to 11%, which is just above inflation right now, that would add about £1,000 to every household in the country.”
Maria Caulfield, Health Minister, BBC Breakfast
- 14 December 2022
“We cannot go back to ... when the The Home Affairs Committee reported ... that over half a million [asylum] legacy cases had been left by the Labour Government. We certainly should not get anywhere near that, so the Government are indeed getting a grip.”
Sarah Dines, Minister for Safeguarding, Westminster Hall
- 13 December 2022
“Difficult though the backlog is, it is half the size that it was when Labour was in office”
PM Rishi Sunak, House of Commons