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Department of Health: Arms Length Bodies

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Question for Department of Health

UIN 115827, tabled on 27 November 2017

Question

Karin Smyth
Labour
Bristol South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many directors and senior officials in his Department's arm's length bodies received bonuses in the 2016-17 financial year.

Answer

Mr Philip Dunne
Conservative
Ludlow
Commons

Answered on

30 November 2017

Directors and senior officials in the Department’s arm’s length bodies (ALBs), employed on the Executive and Senior Manager’s Pay Framework, are eligible for non-consolidated performance related pay awards. For the financial year 2016/17 the following table summarises the application of these arrangements by each ALB, in respect of performance year 2015/16:

ALB

Numbers in receipt

NHS England

Nil

NHS Digital

2

Health Education England

6

Care Quality Commission

Nil

NHS Improvement

Nil

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Nil

NHS Business Services Authority

Nil

NHS Resolution

1

Human Tissue Authority

1

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

1

Health Research Authority

1

NHS Blood and Transplant

3

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Department of Health and Social Care
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