Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS staff have been made redundant since 2010; and how many of those staff have since been rehired by the NHS.

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and in support organisations and central bodies, but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.

The following table shows the number of redundancies since by financial year to 2019/20, headcount.

Source: NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital – June 2020 Reasons for Leaving

The Department does not hold the information requested on the number of employees who have since been rehired by the National Health Service.