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.
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 |