Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the pay ratio was between the highest paid member of staff in his Department and the lowest in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.

In 2020, the ratio between the highest paid member of staff and the lowest was 12.9. In 2021, the ratio was 12.3 and 10.7 in 2022.