Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS positions were vacant as of 30 April 2019 (a) in Yorkshire and (b) at Bridlington hospital.

The data is not available in the format requested.

NHS Improvement produces statistics on the number of vacancies for each trust in England. The vacancy statistics are published at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South. The published data is not available at the county level of Yorkshire or Bridlington hospital.

The latest NHS Improvement report can be found in the following link:

https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf