Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust

HC Deb 07 April 1998 vol 310 cc196-7W

Mr. Peter Atkinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the names of the new appointees to the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, giving their(a) political affiliation and (b) remuneration. [38099]

Mr. Milburn

The names of the chairman and non-executive appointees to the Northumbria Healthcare National Health Service Trust will be announced shortly.

Non-executive directors of NHS trusts and health authorities are entitled to remuneration of £5,000 a year. The chairman of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust is entitled to £19,245 a year.

Mr. Beith

To ask the Secretary of State for Health who were the members of the Northumbria NHS Trust Project Board when it chose the name which it is proposed should be used by the new trust. [38315]

Mr. Milburn

The Northumbria National Health Service Trust Project Board comprised the chairmen, chief executives and medical directors of the three merging trusts: Cheviot and Wansbeck NHS Trust, North Tyneside Healthcare NHS Trust and Northumberland Community Health NHS Trust.