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NHS Business Services Authority was established in 2006 and therefore figures can only be prepared for the last three years.

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the NHS Business Services Authority spent on staff in each of the last five years. [289035]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information is shown in the following table:

NHS Business Services Authority-cost of staff

 £ 000

2006-07

93,310

2007-08

74,673

2008-09

72,674


NHS Business Services Authority was established in 2006 and therefore figures can be prepared only for the last three years.

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff the NHS Business Services Authority employs; and how many of those are (a) full-time and (b) part-time. [289036]


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Mr. Mike O'Brien: The NHS Business Services Authority has a total staff headcount of 2,911 as at 17 July 2009. Of this figure, 2,112 are full time and 799 are part time.

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the NHS Business Services Authority spent on external consultancy in each of the last five years. [289037]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information is shown in the following table.

NHS Business Services Authority-expenditure on external consultancy

 £000

2006-07

181

2007-08

121

2008-09

738


NHS Business Services Authority was established in 2006 and therefore figures can only be prepared for the last three years.

NHS Direct

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many calls NHS Direct has received in each week of 2009. [288598]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: The number of calls NHS Direct has received each week in 2009 is displayed in the following table.


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Week beginning Calls received

1 January 2009

114,494

8 January 2009

100,451

15 January 2009

102,242

22 January 2009

103,254

29 January 2009

102,719

5 February 2009

104,587

12 February 2009

103,438

19 February 2009

103,445

26 February 2009

103,972

5 March 2009

103,251

12 March 2009

101,961

19 March 2009

102,308

26 March 2009

104,093

2 April 2009

96,043

9 April 2009

118,387

16 April 2009

92,978

23 April 2009

95,256

30 April 2009

118,466

7 May 2009

113,443


NHS Healthcare Innovation Expo

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 30 June 2009, Official Report, columns 217-8W, on the NHS Innovation Expo, how many NHS staff attended the event; and how much delegates were charged to attend. [286419]

Gillian Merron: A total of 5,040 delegates attended the healthcare innovation Expo over the two days. We do not hold information on how many of those delegates were national health service staff; attendees came from a range of backgrounds, including NHS and social care chief executives, clinicians, front-line staff, managers, patients, voluntary organisations, academia and industry.

In the majority of cases, no charge was made for attendance from the public sector.

NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the annual salary of each member of the board of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement was in each of the last five years. [288685]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: Annual salaries are as set out in the following table. It should be noted that salaries are reported in bands of £5,000 and in £000, as recorded in NHS Institute annual reports. Notes appear as follows.


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Board m ember Role 2005- 06 2006- 07 2007- 08 2008- 09

Bernard Crump

Chief Executive

100-105

155-160

160-165

175-180

Simone Jordan

Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer

60-65

120-125

115-120

130-135

Helen Bevan

Chief Officer Service Transformation

120-125

120-125

120-125

130-135

Maire Smith

Director of Technology and Product Innovation

65-70

115-120

115-120

(1)100-105

Michael Cawley

Director of Finance and Business Services

55-60

110-115

110-115

(2)35- 40

Paul Allen

Director of Leadership

60-65

110-115

110-115

115-120

Roderick Anthony

Acting Chief Finance Officer

n/a

n/a

n/a

(3)80-85

Yve Buckland

Chair and Chair of Shadow Nominations Committee

45-50

60-65

60-65

60-65

David Bower

Non-executive Director

0-5

5-10

5-10

5-10

Tony Butterworth

Non-executive Director

0-5

5-10

5-10

5-10

Mike Collier

Vice Chair and Chair of the Audit Committee

0-5

10-15

10-15

10-15

Michael Deegan

Non-executive Director

0-5

5-10

5-10

5-10

Noorzaman Rashid

Non-executive Director

n/a

n/a

(4)0-5

5-10

Carol Black

Non-executive Director

n/a

5-10

5-10

5-10

Andrew Smith

Non-executive Director

n/a

n/a

5-10

(5)5-10

Joe Liddane

Non-executive Director

n/a

n/a

n/a

(6)0-5

Michael Lander

Non-executive Director

n/a

n/a

n/a

(7)0-5

Dennis Sherwood

Non-executive Director

0-5

(8)0-5

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(1) Maire Smith left her post on 31 January 2009. in addition to basic salary, other contractual remuneration and benefits in kind received during the year, she also received an additional payment of £20,000 on termination of her contract.
(2) Michael Cawley left his post on 31 July 2008 on secondment to East Midlands Strategic Health Authority.
(3) Roderick Anthony commenced in post on 1 August 2008.
(4) Noorzaman Rashid commenced his post on 1 October 2007
(5) Andrew Smith left his post on 31 January 2009
(6) Joe Liddane commenced his post on 1 March 2009
(7) Michael Lander commenced his post on 1 March 2009
(8) Dennis Sherwood resigned from his post on 31 October 2006

It should be noted that salaries for 2005-06 are not, in many cases for the full year as the NHS Institute was not fully established until July 2005 and so some salaries are for part year only.

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement spent on staffing in each of the last five years. [288687]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: This is set out in the following table:

Staff costs (including seconded, contract and agency staff)

 £

2005-06

8,553,000

2006-07

9,297,000

2007-08

10,567,000

2008-09

12,937,000


Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when Ministers in his Department last met staff of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. [289038]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: Dame Yve Buckland, Chair of the NHS Institute met with my noble Friend Lord Darzi on 21 April 2009.

Professor Bernard Crump, CEO met with my noble Friend Lord Darzi on 3 June 2009 at the Department of Health.

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the budget of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement was in each of the last five years. [289039]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: This is set out in the following table:

Annual budget £

2005-06

61,912,000

2006-07

56,231,000

2007-08

73,531,000

2008-09

(1)80,790,000

2009-10

69,730,000

(1 )Inc. National Library for Health costs, since transferred out.
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