Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of NHS staff in administrative leadership roles at the latest date for which such figures are available identified as (a) white British and (b) from any other ethnic group.

The attached table shows the number and proportion of National Health Service medical practitioners, staff in clinical leadership positions, staff in administrative or support roles and staff in administrative leadership roles by ethnicity. The data is from the latest provisional monthly workforce statistics for August 2014 and the provisional NHS staff earnings estimates, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

Some staff will be counted twice within this table due to the overlap between the specified staff groups.