Department of Health: Staff

(asked on 20th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reduction in the number of his Department's officials has been in each year since 2009-10; and what planned reduction in the number of his Department's officials there is in each year to 2019-20 by nomenclature of territorial units for statistics region 1.


Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 30th January 2017

Information on historic and current levels staffing levels in the ‘core’ Department budget is given in the following table.

Information on forecasts for future staffing levels are not available in the format requested

Territorial Units for core Department (excluding agencies)

Numbers of Employed Staff by Territorial Unit at dates shown (full-time equivalent)

31 March 2010

31 March 2011

31 March 2012

31 March 2013

31 March 2014

31 March 2015

31 March 2016

31 March 2017

North East

48

57

57

57

48

48

0

0

North West

10

10

10

10

..

0

38

24

Yorkshire and the Humber

814

786

719

709

613

642

642

419

East Midlands

19

19

10

10

0

0

0

0

West Midlands

19

10

10

10

0

0

0

0

East

19

19

10

10

0

0

0

0

London

1,533

1,533

1,351

1,312

1,111

1,236

1,245

847

South East

48

29

29

19

19

19

19

17

South West

10

10

10

10

0

0

0

0

Wales

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Scotland

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Northern Ireland

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Overseas

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Location not reported

86

67

57

38

48

5 or fewer

0

25

Total

2,606

2,539

2,261

2,184

1,839

1,945

1,945

1,332

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