questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the increase in the number of Very Senior Managers employed by the NHS between 2021 and 2025, as set out in the Joint DHSC and NHS England evidence for the SSRB: pay round 2026 to 2027, published 30 October 2025, was attributable to a) the creation of new posts and b) staff moving above the salary threshold used to define a Very Senior Manager.
answerText: The Department does not hold the information requested.
heading: NHS: Managers