let s have a closer look at some of the recommendations. police officers have been offered 7%. consultants, dentists and gp s 6%. junior doctors 6%. prison officers 7%. the armed forces 5%. teachers 6.5%. what do we want? fair pay! when do we want it? now! teachers protesting, education disrupted, classrooms empty. for months, pupils and parents in england have been caught up in an angry row between teaching unions and the government. but could a 6.5% pay rise, alongside this promise from the prime minister, bring an end to it? there will be more money going into the schools budget to help schools pay for these new pay awards. so they will not have to make cuts, and that was something that was rightly important to the unions and we have worked with them to ensure that the funding is there for schools. given the scale of disruption caused by industrial action this year, and notjust in schools, there is one question for trades unions tonight. will this mean the end of the
inflation. the amount of money that we are talking about is relatively modest in terms of the fall education and health budgets, may be 1.5% of the total. so we shouldn t overdo the scale of the additional money that is required here, but clearly that additional money for 4 billion or so a total will have to come from somewhere to him may mean a little bit less of some things within those services or, as the prime minister suggests, finding the money from somewhere else, but don t forget, there are all sorts of other pressures on government budgets, not least of these ever increasing interest rates, which are increasing constantly and the amount that government has to spend on debt interest. . , government has to spend on debt interest. ., , ., ., ., ,., interest. that is one of the reason one of the interest. that is one of the reason one of the governments interest. that is one of the reason one of the governments because i interest. that is one of the reason . one of the gove