United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 265
NHS England: Staff
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13 May 2026
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21 May 2026 · Answer
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS England employees there (a) are and (b) were on 13 March 2025; and what estimate he has made of the number of NHS England employees there will be following the first round of the volun
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13 May 2026
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS England employees there (a) are and (b) were on 13 March 2025; and what estimate he has made of the number of NHS England employees there will be following the first round of the volun
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21 May 2026
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There were 17,517 full-time equivalent posts within NHS England at the end of March 2025, 2,484 of which were vacant. At the end of April 2026, there were 13,940 staff in post in NHS England. NHS England ran a voluntary redundancy scheme in December 2025 ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-05-13/265
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1904289
- uk · wq-1904289 · source updated 21 May 2026