Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if they will list the five teams in their Department with the highest number of staffing vacancies as a percentage of staff as of 8 December 2022; and what is the percentage of roles vacant in each of those teams.

The following table shows the five Directorates with the highest number of staffing vacancies and the vacancy rate by percentage of staff, as recorded by the Department’s central resourcing team on 25 November 2022.