The Financial Times leads on health insiders claiming Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will give £3bn in fresh cash to the NHS to help fund a pay deal “that ministers hoped would create a ‘snowball effect’ to end the wave of public sector strikes. The Treasury confirmed to the paper the health department would get more money but denied a £3bn cash injection had been agreed to cover the £4bn cost of the higher-than-expected pay deal. It comes as health workers begin to vote in trade union ballots on the government’s pay offer, the report explains.