Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full time equivalent nurses are employed by all NHS trusts in the East of England in each year since 2009-10.

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practice surgeries, local authorities or other providers.

The following table shows the number of full time equivalent nurses employed by all National Health Service trusts in the East of England in each year from September 2009 to September 2021.