Mark Francois MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
NHS England: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37142More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2025 to Question 27118 on NHS England: Pay, which posts within NHS East of England are remunerated at the ESM 1 salary band.
Answer: Of the 14 roles in the ESM 1 band in NHS East of England, those that are currently filled are:Director of Commissioning Finance;Director of Nursing - Quality and Transformation;Director of Commissioning of Public Health;Director of Strategy, Planning and ...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37141More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2025 to Question 27118 on NHS England: Pay, whether the Strategy Director of NHS East of England is remunerated with an annual salary within the maximum excepti
Answer: The Strategy Director of NHS East of England is remunerated within the maximum exception zone salary band.
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37140More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2025 to Question 27118 on NHS England: Pay, whether the annual salary of the Chief Operating Officer of NHS East of England is within the maximum exception zone
Answer: The Chief Operating Officer of NHS East of England is remunerated within the maximum exception zone salary band.
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37139More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2025 to Question 27118 on NHS England: Pay, whether the annual salary of the Finance Director of NHS East of England is within the maximum exception zone for th
Answer: The Finance Director of NHS East of England is remunerated within the maximum exception zone salary band.
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2025 to Question 27118 on NHS England: Pay, whether the annual salary of the Regional Director of NHS East of England is within the maximum exception zone for t
Answer: The Regional Director of NHS East of England is not remunerated within the maximum exception zone for the salary band.
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Trusts: EssexDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29439More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the capital expenditure promised to Basildon, Broomfield and Southend hospitals as part of their merger into Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust has been (a) al
Answer: The trust was awarded £118.6 million as part of the National Health Service upgrades programme for the reconfiguration of hospital services across three acute sites, namely Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Southend Hospital in Southend, and Basildon Hos...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Trusts: EssexDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29438More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the merger of Basildon, Broomfield and Southend Hospital Trusts into the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
Answer: The merger of Basildon, Broomfield, and Southend Hospitals in 2020 set out to improve health outcomes for the local population and unlock the financial savings required to deliver a sustainable health economy across the mid and south Essex footprint.Mid a...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29437More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2025 to Question 26430 on NHS England: Staff, how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by NHS East of England Headquarters in (a) 2021, (b) 2022, (c) 2
Answer: The following table shows the number of budgeted full-time equivalent (FTE) staff, specifically the number of budgeted posts rather than the number of staff currently employed, and the pay budget for NHS England East of England, each year from 2021/22 to ...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Trusts: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29422More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2025 to Question 27117 on Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: Finance, what guidance his Department issues on the management steps that NHS Acute Trusts s
Answer: As part of the Oversight Framework, which is currently being refreshed, NHS England closely monitors the financial performance of providers and systems, intervening and providing support where there is concern about a risk of overspending against agreed p...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29421More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2025 to Question 27118 on NHS England: Pay, what the difference is between (a) operational max and (b) max exception zones in NHS Executive Senior Manager pay b
Answer: The operational maximum is the maximum salary rate NHS England can appoint without seeking permission from the Department. Salaries above the operational maximum require as a minimum approval from the Department’s Renumeration Committee, and depending on ...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27119More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any directors of the Mid and South Essex Hospitals NHS Trust were paid any form of bonuses in financial years (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25.
Answer: Information on the renumeration, including bonuses, of senior staff is published by hospital trusts as part of their annual report and accounts. It is for the local Remuneration Committee of each National Health Service trust to approve bonuses for direct...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27118More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any senior directors of NHS England were paid performance bonuses in financial years (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25.
Answer: NHS England publishes the performance bonus information for its national directors in their annual accounts. No national directors were paid a bonus in 2023/24, and bonuses will not be paid for 2024/25. NHS England’s latest annual report and accounts has ...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27117More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the operating deficit for the Mid and South Essex Hospitals NHS Trust for financial years (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25 and (c) 2025-26.
Answer: Trusts report their deficit position in their board reports, which are published on their websites. In 2023/24, the Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust reported an operating deficit of £29.7 million, resulting in the organisation being placed into the Na...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: Annual ReportsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27116More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when NHS East of England plans to publish an annual report for 2024-25.
Answer: National Health Service East of England is a regional team within NHS England, and as such they do not publish an annual report. The NHS England’s annual report and accounts includes the regional teams, other NHS England operations, and group bodies.
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: CommunicationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27115More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) communications and (b) media staff are employed by NHS East of England.
Answer: NHS England publishes the performance bonus information for its national directors in their annual accounts. No national directors were paid a bonus in 2023/24, and bonuses will not be paid for 2024/25. NHS England’s latest annual report and accounts has ...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27114More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many employees of NHS East of England are in salary bands above (a) £250,000, (b) £200,000, (c) £150,000 and (d) £100,000.
Answer: NHS England publishes the performance bonus information for its national directors in their annual accounts. No national directors were paid a bonus in 2023/24, and bonuses will not be paid for 2024/25. NHS England’s latest annual report and accounts has ...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: Annual ReportsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26431More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on when the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust plans to publish it's 2024-25 Annual Report.
Answer: The Annual Report and Accounts of the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust for 2024/2025 will be published ahead of the trust’s Annual General Meeting, which is usually held at the end of September. Publication can only take place after the Annual Rep...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26430More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent staff are employed by the NHS East of England headquarters.
Answer: The NHS England East of England regional whole time equivalent for this establishment is 637. This is the number of posts, rather than the number of staff currently employed. The data for the total number of full-time equivalent staff employed is unvalida...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26429More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the salary band is of the Chief Operating Officer of the NHS East of England.
Answer: The salary bands for the Regional Director, Finance Director, Strategy Director, and Chief Operating Officer for NHS East of England are as follows:Executive Senior Manager (ESM) Grade 3 for the Regional Director;ESM Grade 2 for the Finance Director;ESM G...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26428More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the salary band is of the Regional Director of Strategy and Integration for the NHS East of England.
Answer: The salary bands for the Regional Director, Finance Director, Strategy Director, and Chief Operating Officer for NHS East of England are as follows:Executive Senior Manager (ESM) Grade 3 for the Regional Director;ESM Grade 2 for the Finance Director;ESM G...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26427More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the salary band is for the Finance Director of the NHS East of England.
Answer: The salary bands for the Regional Director, Finance Director, Strategy Director, and Chief Operating Officer for NHS East of England are as follows:Executive Senior Manager (ESM) Grade 3 for the Regional Director;ESM Grade 2 for the Finance Director;ESM G...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26426More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the salary band is for the Regional Director of the NHS East of England.
Answer: The salary bands for the Regional Director, Finance Director, Strategy Director, and Chief Operating Officer for NHS East of England are as follows:Executive Senior Manager (ESM) Grade 3 for the Regional Director;ESM Grade 2 for the Finance Director;ESM G...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24421More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what role Price Waterhouse Coopers have been assigned in assisting with the financial management of the Mid & South Essex NHS Hospitals Trust; how long this task has been assigned for; what the cos
Answer: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) received a direct award to undertake a nationally mandated Investigation and Intervention programme at the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board, to support it in delivering its financial plan.The programme lasted eight we...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: EqualityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24420More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many equality, diversity and inclusion managers are employed by the Mid and South Essex Hospitals NHS Trust.
Answer: The Department does not hold the information requested.
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: MediaDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24419More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) communications and (b) media staff are employed by Mid & South Essex Hospitals NHS Trust.
Answer: The Department does not hold the information requested.
Answered 21 Jan 2025
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