To ask the Secretary of State for Health what benefits in kind have been recorded as being provided to senior staff in his Department in its resource accounts for (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07 and (c) 2007-08. (241154)

There were no benefits in kind reported in the 2005-06 and 2006-07 resource accounts. In 2007-08, the benefits-in-kind for David Nicholson and Bill Kirkup were second home allowances. The benefits-in-kind for Chan Wheeler were a relocation package of £41,900 and a second home allowance of £90,600.