Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the salary of Dr Nicole Mather is for her role as Director of the Office for Life Sciences.

Nicole Mather is an employee of Deloitte on secondment to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). In line with transparency requirements, her Full Time Equivalent (FTE) salary with Deloitte, which is reimbursed by BIS, has been published as part of the Cabinet Office senior officials “high earners” salaries available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/senior-officials-high-earners-salaries . This states that her total pay floor as at 30 September 2015 was £150,000, and the ceiling was £154,999. This is within the civil service FTE pay band for SCS PB2. Nicole’s Deloitte contract is 80% FTE and thus she receives 80% of this salary.