Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of new nurses recruited by the NHS in the last 12 months remain in full-time employment in the NHS; and what the retention rates among new recruits were in (a) 2000, (b) 2005 and (c) 2010.

NHS Digital publishes quarterly data on turnover of staff working in the National Health Service in England.

59.9% of all new nurses recruited by the NHS are in full time employment at the end of the 12 month period between May 2010 to May 2011.

59.3% of all new nurses recruited by the NHS are in full time employment at the end of the 12 month period between May 2016 to May 2017.

Data prior to 2009 is not available.

Source: NHS Digital, Provisional NHS Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics.