NHS Trusts: Fines
(asked on 8th December 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2025 to Question 94583 on Public Bodies: Fines, how much revenue has been generated for (a) the consolidated fund and (b) enforcing bodies due to fines against NHS trusts since 2020.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has criminal enforcement powers to fine a health or social care provider where they identify a breach of regulations. The CQC can directly serve a fixed penalty notice to a provider, or a fine may be issued by the court following prosecution brought by the CQC.
No fines as a result of CQC enforcement activity are retained by the CQC. Any fixed penalty paid to the CQC is not retained but must be passed on by the CQC to my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. The CQC transfers the penalties received to the Department of Health and Social Care on a quarterly basis. The money raised by court fines is paid to HM Treasury.
The following table shows the fines served by the court following prosecution brought by the CQC against National Health Service trusts since 2020:
Financial year | NHS Trust Name | Fine amount |
2020/21 | Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust | £1,600.00 |
2021/22 | East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust | £733,000.00 |
2021/22 | The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust | £2,533,332.00 |
2021/22 | United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust | £100,000.00 |
2022/23 | The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust | £800,000.00 |
2022/23 | The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust | £533,334.00 |
2022/23 | The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust | £200,000.00 |
2022/23 | Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust | £60,000.00 |
2022/23 | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | £800,000.00 |
2022/23 | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust | £200,000.00 |
2024/25 | Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust | £140,000.00 |
2024/25 | Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust | £60,000.00 |
2024/25 | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | £100,000.00 |
2024/25 | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | £300,000.00 |
2024/25 | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | £100,000.00 |
2024/25 | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | £300,000.00 |
2024/25 | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | £100,000.00 |
2024/25 | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | £700,000.00 |
2025/26 | University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust | £200,000.00 |
Note: where an NHS trust is fined more than once in a given fiscal year, the fines relate to individual cases.