HC Deb 20 December 1994 vol 251 cc1141-2W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 9 December,Official Report, column 395, how many individuals received termination payments from each of the NHS trusts listed.

Mr. Malone

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Darlington (Mr. Milburn) on 19 December.Official Report, columns 985–86.

Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the salary plus bonus payments for the chief executive of each NHS trust.

Mr. Malone

Remuneration details of chief executives are published locally in trusts' annual accounts.

Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 9 December,Official Report, columns 394–95, what reasons were given by each NHS trust for the termination of employment in each case.

Mr. Malone

These are matters for individual trusts which have always been and remain free to determine the terms of their staffs' employment contracts.

Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the policy of her Department as to cancelled operations in NHS trust run hospitals.

Mr. Sackville

The national health service undertakes over 3.5 million operations every year, the vast majority on time. Our aim is to continue to reduce the number of occasions where operations have to be cancelled. We have set a national patients charter standard so that where an operation is unavoidably cancelled on the day it is due to take place, the patient will be offered a new date within one month of the cancellation.

Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the limitations on NHS trust chairmen and non-executive directors seeking posts or contracts with health authorities or trusts.

Mr. Malone

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave him on 30 November at column787.

Mr. Soley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer to the hon. Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice) of 9 December 1994,Official Report, column 395, how many termination payments have been made by NHS trusts to employees below the rank of general and senior managers; and what is the total amount for each trust to date.

Mr. Malone

This information is not available centrally.

Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many employees of NHS trusts have been(a) dismissed, (b) made redundant, (c) given early retirement and (d) had their contracts revoked with compensation in excess of (i) the NHS redundancy provisions, (ii) £100,000 gross and (iii) £250,000 gross; and if she will make a statement.

Mr. Malone

This information is not available centrally.