Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish the number of full time equivalent (a) trainee and (b) qualified cognitive behavioural therapists employed by NHS provider in each quarter between 2015 and 2023.

NHS England publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. This data is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record, the human resources system for the National Health Service. From this data, the attached tables present the number of full time equivalent staff who have a job role recorded as being either trainee or qualified cognitive behaviour therapists or high intensity therapists. A small number of those with the job role ‘high intensity therapists’ may not be cognitive behavioural therapists. Data is presented for each quarter from March 2015 to September 2023 split by the body employing the staff.

It is possible that some staff working as cognitive behavioural therapists may be recorded against other job roles, therefore these figures may undercount the total number of staff involved. Differing recording practices may also limit how comparable figures for different trusts are.