NHS: Redundancy

(asked on 14th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on NHS staff redundancies in each year since 2011-12.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 22nd December 2017

The total cost of National Health Service compulsory redundancies and ‘other departures’ since 2011-12 to 2012-13 and the total cost of NHS redundancies, both compulsory and voluntary, from 2013-14 is as follows:

Year

Total cost (£000s)

2011-12

417,290

2012-13

429,702

2013-14

142,064

2014-15

144,419

2015-16

89,370

2016-17

64,725

Years 2011-12 and 2012-13 include NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts, primary care trusts and strategic health authorities.

Years 2013-14 to 2016-17 include NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts, NHS England and clinical commissioning groups. Clinical commissioning group data is consolidated with NHS England data and cannot be disaggregated.

‘Other departures’ include voluntary redundancies, as well as the following categories of exit package payments:

- mutually agreed resignations contractual costs;

- early retirements in the efficiency of the service contractual costs;

- contractual payments in lieu of notice;

- exit payments following employment tribunals or court orders; and

- non-contractual payments requiring HM Treasury approval.

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