Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2019 to Question 286692, what equivalent data exists for the county of Hampshire and not limited to Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.

The Department does not hold data for geographical regions. The NHS Digital data that the Department holds provides information by National Health Service trusts, CCGs and Health Education England regions. As such, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was the best proxy that could be used to answer Question 286692.