Increase National Insurance by 0.2% to increase the pay of frontline NHS Staff.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

According to the The Kings Fund there are 948,177 frontline staff working in NHS England classed as Doctors, Other Clinical Staff & Support to Clinical Staff. A modest but deserved increase to their salary could be funded by increasing NI by only 0.2%.

Due to the pandemic these workers deserve a little more. With a median salary of £31,461 across the UK's 24,000,000 workforce, a 0.2% NI increase (14% rate) would generate approximately £43.92 per worker and a total of about £1B in revenue. The would allow the country to give these 948,177 Doctors, Other Clinical Staff & Support to Clinical Staff and extra £1,000 each in their salary to say 'Thank You'. There should be enough money generated to also cover Scotland, Wales & Nothern Ireland.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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Timeline

4 Mar 2021	Petition opened for signatures
23 Mar 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 23 Mar 2021

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