PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (16 March 2015)

Monitor issued a press release on 2 March issuing figures on costs incurred by Monitor for the trust special administrator’s (TSA) regime at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust (MSFT).

This press release outlines that the work of the TSAs to secure safe and sustainable services at MSFT cost Monitor almost £19.5 million, including VAT, over 18 months.

This covers the work to find and implement a solution to the problems at MSFT (£17.35 million), plus the full cost of having the TSAs running the hospitals at the same time (£2.15 million).

All of the figures supplied by Monitor in their press release include VAT because they reflect the bills that Monitor and the trust have paid and will be declared as such in the accounts; however, the net cost of the process to the taxpayer would exclude VAT.

Monitor plans to publish a detailed breakdown of the costs of the TSA regime at MSFT, alongside a report setting out some of the lessons learned, in due course.

A copy of Monitor’s press release is attached.