As well as announcing the date of the 2010 Budget, the Prime Minister also made some announcements on public sector pay this morning.
In his speech on the economy, he confirmed that there would be no pay rises for senior civil servants, the senior military, the judiciary, senior NHS managers, consultants, GPs or dentists from April 2010.
All these groups have their pay rates recommended by public sector review bodies, which published reports today setting out their proposals. Reports on pay in the prison service and armed forces have also been published.
You can find a statement confirming which proposals the government has accepted or rejected on the Number 10 website.
As the Prime Minister had already pre-announced that these groups were going to have their pay frozen (see our round-up of public sector pay on XpertHR - subscription required), it was quite brave of the senior salaries review body to recommend that senior NHS managers earning less than £80,000 should get a 2.25% pay rise, which the government rejected.
The Prime Minister also confirmed that government ministers would not be seeing ministerial pay rise in 2010-11 nor would they be taking up the 1.5% pay increase for all MPs from April 2010 that was announced last week.
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