Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the cost of abolishing the National Patient Safety Agency.

An internal report Abolition of the National Patient Safety Agency, Transition and closure (July 2012) states that “In total, the savings secured through closing the Agency have been calculated to be approximately £9.3 million per annum … The vast majority of the Agency’s cost base related to personnel. A significant amount of cost saving was secured through proactive management of headcount through restructuring and redundancy programmes.”