Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 139-2025
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
Please consider the following as a request under the Freedom of Information Act (2000). Please provide the following:
1. For each of the following financial years (24/25, 23/24, 22/23, 21/22, 20/21):
a) The number of financial overpayments made to staff
b) Number of financial underpayments made to staff.
c) The respectively amounts of overpayments in GDP
d) The respective amounts of underpayments in GDP
Our response:
We do not hold information on underpayments.
| Year Ending March 2021 | Year Ending March 2022 | Year Ending March 2023 | Year Ending March 2024 | Year Ending March 2025 | |
| No of Staff Overpayments | 43 | 59 | 137 | 183 | 68 |
| Value of Staff Overpayments | 51,901.16 | 58,268.91 | 114,428.12 | 125,700.36 | 84,645.24 |
You asked:
2. And then the number of times bailiffs or any other debt enforcement agency was brought in to pursue Trust staff in order to recover overpayments.
Please provide this for each of the following financial years (24/25, 23/24, 22/23, 21/22, 20/21).
*If financial year is not possible, please provide instead by calendar year / any other format in which you hold your data.
Our response:
We have not engaged bailiffs or other debt enforcement agencies to recover staff overpayments.
Next steps:
Should you have any queries in relation to our response, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:
Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss@ghc.nhs.uk
If you are not content with the outcome of any review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for further advice/guidance. Generally, the ICO will not consider your case unless you have exhausted your enquiries with the Trust which should include considering the use of the Trust’s formal complaints procedure. The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.