§ Dr. FoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance his Department issues to NHS trusts about limits on staff salaries. [127341]
§ Mr. HuttonThe Department does not issue guidance to national health service trusts on limits to individual staff salaries. In each of the five years from 1998–99 to 2002–03, the Department issued guidance recommending a financial envelope for increases in each organisation's pay bill for senior managers.