Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) headcount and (b) FTE staff were employed by NHS England on (a) 4 July 2024 and (b) 14 October 2025.

As of June 2024, the headcount for NHS England was 15,803, and the full-time equivalent staff employed was 14,327.6. These figures are published and available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dhsc-workforce-management-information.

We are still finalising figures for October, and this will be published in due course.