Question follow-through · 9486
NHS Trusts: Managers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Very Senior Manager posts existed in NHS trusts in each year since 2021.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Very Senior Manager posts existed in NHS trusts in each year since 2021.
16 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Department and NHS England publish information on the number of Very Senior Managers working in National Health Service organisations each year as part of evidence for the Senior Salaries Review Body. The latest evidence for the 2026/27 pay round can ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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19 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to improve patient access to innovative cancer medicines that have received regulatory approval.
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19 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with NHS officials and pharmaceutical companies on making Enhertu available on the NHS for patients with HER2-low metastatic breast cancer.
Trastuzumab Deruxtecan
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19 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of patients in Essex with HER2-low metastatic breast cancer who would be eligible for treatment with Enhertu were it to be routinely commissioned.
Breast Cancer: Drugs
19 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with patient organisations representing people with metastatic breast cancer on improving access to innovative cancer medicines.