Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many paramedics were employed by NHS trusts in each of the past five years.
The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) paramedics working in the National Health Service provider trusts and commissioning bodies for the past five years.
| October 2018 | October 2019 | October 2020 | October 2021 | October 2022 |
Number of FTE paramedics | 15,393 | 16,481 | 17,494 | 18,018 | 18,364 |
Source: NHS Digital Monthly Workforce Statistics