Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are employed as a (a) staff nurse, (b) senior staff nurse, (c) ward manager and (d) senior ward manager in England, by ethnicity.

The Department holds data on the breakdown of staff nurses by ethnicity.

The data in the following table is taken from the Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics: ‘Staff with a Job Role of Staff Nurse by Ethnicity’, in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England, as at 29 February 2020, headcount.