HC Deb 24 January 2001 vol 361 cc599-600W
Mr. Hammond

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what salary is being paid to the holder of the office of Chief Executive of the NHS and Permanent Secretary to the Department of Health. [146955]

Ms Stuart

Information concerning the salaries of all permanent secretaries is published in the annual Senior Salaries Review Body report. For the purposes of the report the pay ranges applicable to permanent secretaries are divided into £5,000 bands. It is not normal practice to publish the actual salary in payment to individual permanent secretaries. The salary of Nigel Crisp, Chief Executive of the National Health Service and Permanent Secretary to the Department of Health, falls within the range £145,000-£149,999.