NHS: Redundancy

(asked on 23rd January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on NHS staff redundancies in each financial year since 2010; and if he will publish an anonymised list detailing the value of each individual redundancy payment.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 28th January 2019

The following table shows the cost of National Health Service exit packages in each financial year from 2010 to 2018:

Financial year ending 31 March

Total cost of exit packages (£ million)

2011

475.7

2012

417.3

2013

429.7

2014

180.2

2015

178.1

2016

122.1

2017

91.0

2018

89.6

The list detailing the value of individual redundancy payments since April 2010 is not held.

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