Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much Somerset NHS Foundation Trust spent on management consultants in each of the last five years.

Owing to data protection reasons, individual salaries cannot be disclosed without the individual’s consent. Salaries of directors are published in annual reports in £5k bands. NHS England provides pay guidance for very senior managers at Foundation Trusts which is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/guidance-on-pay-for-very-senior-managers/

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is classified as an ‘extra-large’ acute provider and that Foundation Trusts hold statutory power over pay.

The Department cannot comment on individual trusts and does not hold the information required.