The law would require government to “present their recommendations for anything below the already approved minimum increase of 2.1% and seek agreement, from the House, of any new proposal”, said Ms Harris.
Ms Harris, who is the parliamentary private secretary to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, highlighted the efforts of nurses and colleagues throughout the pandemic.
NHS staff are the “very best of Britain and they deserve to be given the credit and the reward for everything that they have done and everything they have sacrificed to keep the rest of us safe”, she said.
The first reading of the NHS Pay Award Bill was backed by 222 votes to nil.