NHS: Cleaning Services
(asked on 18th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cleaners were employed in the NHS in each year from 2006-07 to 2015-16.
The information is not available in the format requested. The information that is available is set out in the following table.
Year | Total number of cleaning staff |
Whole Time Equivalent | |
2006/07 | 50,523.5 |
2007/08 | 38,267.4 |
2008/09 | 38,343.3 |
2009/10 | 38,814.4 |
2010/11 | 39,166.6 |
2011/12 | 41,045.7 |
2012/13 | 38,867.4 |
2013/14 | 38,652.9 |
2014/15 | 38,737.6 |
2015/16 | 38,390.9 |
Data is collected annually in the Estates Return Information Collection from the National Health Service on the total number of cleaning staff as a whole time equivalent. It includes both directly employed and contracted out staff. The data is provided as received from the NHS and has not been amended centrally.
From 2006/07 to 2009/10, the number of cleaning staff was not a mandatory field for foundation trusts so the annual totals provided will not necessarily be a true reflection of the actual number.