Debbie Abrahams – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2014-05-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff are employed in (a) his Department, (b) NHS England and (c) Monitor to undertake work on or relating to competition issues; and what the cost of employing such staff was in each of the last five years.
Dr Daniel Poulter
The following table lists the number of staff currently employed to work on competition issues in the Department, NHS England and Monitor.
The level of spend on employing staff to work on competition issues in each of the last five years could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.
|
Organisation |
Number of Staff Employed |
Cost of employing such staff in 2013-14 |
|
Department of Health |
2 |
£98,760-£121,8141 |
|
NHS England |
0 full time posts |
n/a |
|
Monitor2 |
30 |
£1,588,554 |
Notes:
1 The figures shown are the combined cost of the paybands for the 2 staff.
2Monitor’s competition functions were established by the Health and Social Care Act 2012. In the transition year 2012-13 Monitor hosted the Cooperation and Competition Panel at a cost of £1,068,099
