NHS: Redundancy Pay
(asked on 22nd January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average cost per staff member has been of redundancy payments in the NHS since May 2010; what the largest individual redundancy payment has been for that period; how many such redundancies involved an individual redundancy payment of over (a) £50,000, (b) £100,000 and (c) £200,000; and what the total cost to the public purse has been of those redundancies.
The following table shows the average cost of exit packages per staff member in each financial year from 2010 to 2018:
Financial year ending 31 March | Average cost of exit packages (£) |
2011 | 51,136 |
2012 | 43,431 |
2013 | 36,567 |
2014 | 29,945 |
2015 | 33,021 |
2016 | 26,877 |
2017 | 20,800 |
2018 | 20,841 |
Information on the largest individual redundancy payment since May 2010 is not held
The following table shows the number and total cost of exit packages by cost banding in each financial year from 2010 to 2018:
| £50,001 to £100,000 | £100,001 to £200,000 | Over £200,000 | |||
Number | Cost (£ million) | Number | Cost (£ million) | Number | Cost (£ million) | |
2011 | 875 | 88.3 | 380 | 78.6 | 56 | 86.2 |
2012 | 739 | 152.6 | 304 | 40.2 | 69 | 18.7 |
2013 | 1,237 | 88.9 | 575 | 80.5 | 131 | 36.1 |
2014 | 804 | 56.3 | 272 | 36.2 | 33 | 8.6 |
2015 | 647 | 44.8 | 290 | 40.2 | 79 | 20.3 |
2016 | 503 | 35.7 | 189 | 25.2 | 17 | 7.2 |
2017 | 320 | 22.8 | 147 | 19.7 | 3 | 0.6 |
2018 | 342 | 24.1 | 137 | 19.0 | 5 | 1.3 |