Speeches

Luciana Berger – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many financial bonuses of what amount have been paid to employees of Public Health England since April 2013; and on what criteria such bonuses were awarded.

Jane Ellison

Financial bonuses have been paid to 20 employees of Public Health England since its establishment on 1 April 2013, all of which relate to their performance in predecessor organisations in the 2012-13 reporting year. The criteria used for the performance assessment and subsequent payments for which they were eligible were those of their former employer.

Of these, 18 were to former employees of the Department of Health, all of which were non-consolidated. The number of payments and amounts were as follows:

Number of payments

Amount (£)

1

210

1

250

1

380

1

480

1

630

1

750

1

825

4

900

1

1,000

4

1,200

1

10,000

1

12,500

The remaining two were to former employees of the Health Protection Agency, which were also non-consolidated, and amounted to £10,000 each.