Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the level of remuneration was for the chair of NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group in 2015-16; and what assessment he has made of his performance in that role.

Information on the remuneration of chairs is held by individual clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and not collected centrally. West Lancashire CCG has published its chair’s level of remuneration in its Annual Report and Accounts which can be found online at:

http://www.westlancashireccg.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/AnnualReport_2016_v11.pdf

No such assessment has been made by the Department. NHS England has a statutory duty to conduct an annual performance assessment of each CCG. For 2015/16 and previous years it did this through an assurance process. For 2016/17 NHS England has introduced a CCG improvement and assessment framework which supersedes the assurance process. The new system is aligned to delivery of the Five Year Forward View, NHS Planning Guidance and Sustainability and Transformation Plans for each area.