Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) direct employees, (b) agency staff and (c) outsourced staff working for (i) his Department and (ii) agencies of his Department are paid less than the living wage, as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.

All directly employed members of staff and agency staff at the Department sourced via the Crown Commercial Services Framework Contingent Labour One are paid at or above the living wage. The Department does not routinely collect information on the salaries of agency staff sourced outside the CL1 Framework or of outsourced employees.

Public Health England does not have employees, agency or outsourced people paid less than the living wage.

No civil servants employed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) are paid less than the Living Wage. The MHRA does not routinely collect information on the salaries of employees working for its contracted companies or out-sourced service providers.