Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to publish regular data on the number of NHS staff working in each (a) speciality and (b) profession.

NHS England publishes Hospital and Community Health Service workforce statistics for England, these cover staff working in National Health Service trusts and other core NHS organisations. The publication includes data on the number of staff working in each profession and numbers of doctors working in each medical specialty. The information is published monthly, and the data is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics