National Health Service Staff(Compensation)

HC Deb 06 July 1988 vol 136 cc629-30W

Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what were the compensation payments for National Health Service staff in respect of redundancies and early retirements in 1987–88 in the manner used in his answer to the hon. Member for Maidstone (Miss Widdecombe) of 31 March,Official Report, column 660.

Mrs. Currie

Final outturn figures for 1987–88 are not yet available. Provisional outturn figures are as follows:

	Number of cases	Compensation cost	Total cost including superannuation
		£	£
Competitive tendering
New cases	832	1,724,000	3,848,000
Continuing cases	3,408	3,642,000	3,991,000
Other cases
New cases	1,545	5,812,000	19,364,000
Continuing cases	9,491	14,939,000	43,700,000