Monday 01 December 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8944
Date Request Received: 06/10/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 23/10/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: SubCo Request
Request Category: Media
| Question Number 1: This has two parts. They are not dependent on one another. Please respond to the second part regardless of your answer to the first. Please provide this information to me an electronic format. Please list the names of any wholly-owned subsidiaries (also known as SubCos) to the trust | |
| Answer To Question 1: Laundry WOS established 2017 | |
| Question Number 2: In March 2025 Sir James Mackey the chief executive of NHS England told the wider NHS that trusts should normally be transferring support staff to wholly-owned subsidiary companies adding that all trusts will need to introduce or consider SubCos. It is my understanding that at that point NHS foundation trusts began looking into the possibility of setting up new SubCos or expanding the use of their current SubCo, if they have one or more already. To that end, please provide the following pieces of information: a. The name of any management consultancy and/or professional services firms you engaged to provide advice and support following this announcement by Sir James in regard to setting up new or expanding the use of extant SubCos. For the avoidance of doubt, by professional services firms I mean companies (of any size) that provide advice and support in fields such as law, technical areas of expertise such as IT, audit, accountancy, IT, tax including VAT, etc. b. The sum of money paid to those firms in the course of delivering the required service relating to setting up new or expanding the use of extant SubCos c. The number of person hours of time that your trust staff put into scoping out possible actions the trust could make in response to Sir James’ announcement as cited above, including time spent working on compiling a business case for the creation of or expansion of SubCos. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Since the statement by Sir James Mackey, in March 2025, which is the point that the information is being requested from, Procurement have not been aware or involved in any engagement around the areas listed in the question, so there is no information held. | |
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