Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) trainee doctors and (b) nurses are from (i) Wansbeck constituency, (ii) the North East and (iii) the UK.

NHS Digital publishes data on the nationality of staff working in the National Health Service in England. This is a self-reported field within the NHS human resources and payroll system, the electronic staff record. The data is available as a United Kingdom total only.

The latest nationality data available as at August 2016 showed that the number of trainee doctors and nurses who have self-declared their nationality as from within the UK (British, English, Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh) is 38,456 (71.5%) and 245,323 (77.8%) respectively.

This data is published twice a year; the next set will be published on 20 December 2016 showing the position at September 2016.