Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish all data his Department holds on the number of veterans working (a) in the NHS, (b) as prison officers and (c) as teachers.

Data on veterans’ employment is improving all the time but there is still more to do.

Data held by NHSE indicates that between Q1 19/20 and Q3 21/22,1,595 NHS job offers were made to applicants who have previously served in the Armed Forces, although it is unclear how many of those offers were accepted

Data from the Ministry of Justice indicates that between March 2017 and December 2021 there were 1,568 Prison Officers recorded as having previous service in the Armed Forces.

The Department for Education does not hold data on how many veterans are working as teachers.