Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS staff are on the highest point of the Agenda for Change (AfC) payscale in (a) total and (b) each AfC pay band.
The information requested is in the following table.
Number and Proportion of National Health Service staff at the highest point in each Agenda for Change band
Headcount at September 2016
Pay Band | Number of staff |
|
Band 1 | 31,389 |
|
Band 2 | 86,674 |
|
Band 3 | 76,634 |
|
Band 4 | 47,940 |
|
Band 5 | 103,808 |
|
Band 6 | 83,427 |
|
Band 7 | 56,983 |
|
Band 8a | 18,701 |
|
Band 8b | 8,036 |
|
Band 8c | 4,109 |
|
Band 8d | 2,097 |
|
Band 9 | 786 |
|
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All | 520,584 |
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Source: NHS Digital, Provisional NHS Staff Earnings Estimates | ||