Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital administrative staff are paid an annual salary of more than £150,000.

There are 308 full time and 25 part time hospital administrative staff paid an annual salary of more than £150,000 pro rata.

These staff are either chief executives and executive directors on the boards of National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts or other very senior managers employed on local contracts, who hold positions that do not require a clinical qualification.