pay across england in march. at least 260 jobs are going, as british steel announces the closure of its coking ovens in scunthorpe. and, a pivotal day in welsh rugby players are due to reveal whether they will strike during the six nations, over contractual disputes. good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. tesco and aldi have become the latest supermarket groups to restrict the amount of some fruit and vegetables that customers can buy in response to recent shortages of fresh produce. yesterday, asda and morrisons put limits on the number of cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes that shoppers can take home. our business correspondent marc ashdown is here with me. in the winter, there were cold snaps. defra says supply chains are resilient. it doesn t appear to be any reason. lancashire s police and crime commissioner has announced an independent review of the investigation into the disappearance of nicola bulley. andrew snowden has commissioned the college of policing to look in
special needs and the special needs assistant has left the school to work in a supermarket because the pay is better, parents know that their child s education is disrupted every day and that s what we are striking about. the government are striking about. the government says - are striking about. the government says the l are striking about. the government says the strikes are causing more disruption of the parents and children at the end of the school year and schools are receiving an extra £2 million over the next two years. an independent peer review body has advised the government on what the pay rise should be. unions want it publish now that the government has been published in the usual way which is normally the end ofjuly. the two sides i deadlock with no sign of talks resuming. parents in west yorkshire arejuggling childcare and work today. i have to take the days off when my children aren t in school. everybody is going to crisis of living at the moment so i stand what th
government, has we know, from everybody we re seeing in, december vin often saying, well it is not for us to decide how much nurses will, teacher how much police officers should be, paid the independent peer review bodies, and now they are saying, well, you know not even following the recommendations and they have made, if we can t afford, them i think that definitely offers an opportunity for the labor to say, well, this is not what you are seeing a few months, ago but also a difficulty as to whether they would follow anything an independent peer review body said, if they were in, government because governments, have in the past we review bodies both labor and conservative have, and of course, during austerity years or in public sector pay was were not able to report, so i think labor know they have a challenge, share especially when you, know they agree with the government that inflation needs to be cracked down, or they say they agree with the bank of england s approach, would t
start, the royal college of nursing was acting for a pay raise at 5% above information. at what point that could be a rise of up to 19%. the government offered four point 75% the rcn then said it would be willing to meet ministers halfway but the government was adamant it would not revisit that pay award. what has happened now, though, is the government has made a submission to the independent pay review body for the pay raise next year that won t come in until april. it suggested an increase in pay by the initial offer. the peer review body could recommend more and it has done in previous years but what it has given the two sides is an opportunity to do is discuss the idea of backdating next years pay rise into this year. so, if they backdated to january, that would mean a double boost in pay for
people we have spoken to has said it is pretty quiet in there. it seems a lot faster than usual and they were surprised by that. lot faster than usual and they were surprised by that. thank you frances thank ou surprised by that. thank you frances thank you for surprised by that. thank you frances thank you for that. the nhs pay review body is an independent organisation which advises the government on health service salaries. jerry cope used to chair it and hejoins me now. hello to you thank you for being with us. we have the government rishi sunak, steve barclay pointing continually into the recommendation made earlier this year by the peer review body concerning a particular level of increase. and nurses paid. are they right to do that? yes. are they right to do that? yes, i don t think are they right to do that? yes, i don t think you are they right to do that? yes, i don t think you can are they right to do that? yes, i don t think you can run - are they right to do tha