PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES - United Kingdom Parliament

1095W
Written Answers
26 MARCH 2013
Written Answers
1096W
NHS: Payments
Stephen Barclay: To ask the Secretary of State for
Health how many judicial mediation payments were
made in each of the last five years by (a) foundation
hospital trusts, (b) non-foundation hospital trusts and
(c) all other NHS bodies and organisations. [149984]
Dr Poulter: Prior to 11 March 2013. any special
severance payments agreed under the judicial mediation
process did not require HM Treasury approval, in
accordance with existing Treasury rules at that time.
Advice received from the Treasury on 11 March 2013
makes clear that Treasury approval is now required in
advance of a case going to mediation. Where Treasury
approval is given, it sets the upper limit of any subsequently
negotiated settlement through mediation.
In addition, prior to 11 March 2013 the Department
did not hold information on whether any agreements
were made at a judicial mediation or if any payments
were subsequently actually made.
Opiates
Ms Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health
pursuant to the Government’s response to
recommendation 19 of the Ninth Report of the Home
Affairs Committee, Drugs: Breaking the Cycle, HC
184, what assessment he has made of the level of
awareness amongst patients and users of the treatment
options for opioid substitution therapy. [149615]
Anna Soubry: As highlighted in the Government’s
response to the Ninth Report of the Home Affairs
Committee, session 2012-13, HC 184, we agree with the
Home Affairs Committee that it is for the individual
prescriber in discussion with their client to decide which
treatment is clinically most appropriate. The response
references key documents which provide advice to guide
those discussions, including about the provision of
information to patients.
Pay
Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Health
(1) how much was paid to officials in (a) his
Department and (b) its non-departmental public
bodies in bonuses and other payments in addition to
salary in each of the last five years; how many officials
received such payments; and what the monetary value
was of the 20 largest payments made in each year;
[148027]
(2) what allowances and subsidies in addition to
salary were available to officials in (a) his Department
and (b) its non-departmental public bodies in each of
the last five years; and what the monetary value was of
such payments and allowances in each such year.
[148046]
Dr Poulter: For the Department, information requested
about non-consolidated performance related payments
(NCPRPs) (formerly known as bonuses), special bonuses
and distinction awards for medical doctors, paid to civil
servants on the Department’s payroll is given in the
following tables.
Total annual cost (£)
Total number of
awards 1
2008-09 2,923,816 1,530
2009-10 2,665,217 1,372
2010-11 2,013,966 1,174
2011-12 1,481,133 1,485
Name of organisation
and type of payment
£
How much was paid to officials in nondepartmental
public bodies in bonuses and other
payments in addition to salary
2012-13 to end of
February 2013 2011-12
Monitor 7,350 14,500
1
NHS CB: The Commissioning Board became an Executive non-departmental
public body on 1 October 2012 and will not be effectively operational until
1 April 2013. The NHS CB is undertaking a significant programme of staff
transition and recruitment, and during this financial year most staff have been
working on a secondment and interim basis. Therefore it is not possible to give
meaningful figures for 2012-13.
The information on allowances and subsidies available
to officials in the Department’s non-departmental public
bodies (NDPBs) is set out in the following table.
2012-13 to
February
Total annual cost (£) Total number of awards 1
1,206,364 921
1
A civil servant may be entitled to receive more than one type of bonus within
a given year.
Source:
Department of Payroll Systems
Highest 20 awards in the Department for each year
£
2008-09 1
55,098
1
55,098
2
49,004
1
31,486
1
31,486
26,775
26,163
23,889
21,464
19,500
19,087
19,012
18,639
18,162
18,000
17,431
17,408
17,094
16,628
15,030
2009-10 1
75,796
1
41,943
1
30,494
2
27,500
1
15,980
15,000
15,000