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NHS: Pay

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 6 July 2009, Official Report, column 583-84W, on staff pay, how many staff received a salary of more than £100,000 in current prices in each year; and how many staff were receiving a salary of more than £100,000 on 1 April 2009. (290286)

The number of the Department's staff receiving a salary of more than £100,000 in each year, expressed in prices as at 1 April 2009, is presented in the following table.

In post date as at 1 April each year

Number of staff

2008

76

2007

83

2006

89

2005

96

2004

99

2003

105

Salaries have been recalculated based on the changes in the consumer price index (CPI), averaged over the whole of each year and include all pay-related allowances.

Information prior to 2003 is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost as recalculation before that date would involve searching individual paper files.

The number of staff receiving a salary of more than £100,000 on 1 April 2009 was 74.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) of 6 July 2009, Official Report, column 583W, on departmental pay, how many staff (a) received a salary of more than £100,00 in each year since 1997, expressed in 2009 prices and (b) were earning more than £100,000 on 1 April 2009. (290305)

The number of the Department's staff receiving a salary of more than £100,000 in each year, expressed in prices as at 1 April 2009, is presented in the following table.

In post date

Number of staff

1 April 2008

76

1 April 2007

83

1 April 2006

89

1 April 2005

96

1 April 2004

99

1 April 2003

105

Salaries have been recalculated based on the changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), averaged over the whole of each year and include all pay-related allowances.

Information prior to 2003 is not held centrally and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost as recalculation before that date would involve searching individual paper files.

The number of staff receiving a salary of more than £100,000 on 1 April 2009 was 74.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the percentage change in salary of each board member of each NHS (a) trust and (b) foundation was in each year since 2001; (291757)

(2) what (a) pay and (b) other benefits each board member of each NHS (i) trust and (ii) foundation has received in each year since 2001.

This information is not collected centrally. National health service trusts and NHS foundation trusts are public bodies, and the remuneration of their senior executive teams is a matter of public record and published in their annual accounts.

NHS trusts and foundation trusts have full responsibility for determining the rates of remuneration for their senior executive board members. Foundation trusts have full responsibility for determining the remuneration of their non-executive directors (that is, of their board members).

Pay rates for non-executive board members in NHS trusts are set centrally by the Department. The rates for all years since 2001-02 are as follows:

Chair—scale minimum

Chair—scale maximum

Non-executive director

Percentage increase

2001-02

16,017

20,420

5,294

n/a

2002-03

16,017

20,420

5,294

0

2003-04

16,827

21,453

5,562

5.1

2004-05

17,164

21,882

5,673

2.0

2005-06

17,164

21,882

5,673

0

2006-07 (from 1 April 2006)

17,335

22,100

5,730

1.0

2006-07 (from 1 November 2006)

17,545

22,235

5,800

1.2

2007-08

17,773

22,524

5,875

1.3

2008-09

18,164

23,020

6,005

2.2

2009-10

18,436

23,365

6,095

1.5