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 staff were working on the New Hospital Programme in each year since 2019.

The New Hospital Programme was set up to deliver the Government’s commitment to build 40 new hospitals and it is a joint programme across the Department and NHS England.

The following table shows the earliest available figures for New Hospital Programme average full-time equivalent (FTE) staff for each financial year. This spans staff across both the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England. Data prior to 2021/22 is not available due to the Department’s reporting systems.

Technical advisors engaged on the New Hospital Programme do not form part of the headcount. They are engaged for specific packages of work and provide services and deliverables rather than resources.