Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 264-2025
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
1. Please list the names of any wholly-owned subsidiaries (also known as SubCos) to the trust.
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.
Our response:
The Trust does not have any wholly owned subsidiaries and have no plans to create one, therefore have not incurred any costs in making this decision.
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.