Health written question – answered at on 5 December 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether any senior staff in (a) his Department and (b) its Executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies are paid by means of payments to a limited company in lieu of a salary; and if he will publish his policy on such payments.
No civil servants in the Department, employed either on permanent or fixed-term contracts are paid by means of payments to limited companies. Similarly, no senior staff of the Department's Executive agency, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, or its other non-departmental public bodies are paid in this manner.
It is not the Department's policy to permit payments to civil servants by way of limited companies.
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