Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide a breakdown by ethnicity and pay grade of (a) all staff, (b) professionally qualified clinical staff, (c) maternity staff and (d) midwives who work in the NHS in England (i) at the most recent point for which figures are available and (i) in January 2018.

NHS Digital collects and publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in National Health Service trusts and commissioning bodies, but not staff working in primary care or in general practice, local authorities or other providers.

Data on the NHS workforce is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). ESR is the Human Resource and payroll system for the NHS. Data on the headcount of HCHS staff by ethnicity and pay grade for December 2017 and September 2022 is attached. Data is published quarterly and as such December 2017 is the closest point to the requested January 2018 data. The latest data available is at September 2022.

Maternity services staff have been defined as doctors working in the speciality of obstetrics and gynaecology and other professionally qualified clinical staff (midwives and nurses) and clinical support staff working in the care setting of maternity services or neonatal nursing (including special care baby units).