Departmental Staff
Health
John Redwood (Wokingham, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent employees his Department employed in May 2010; and how many it employed in the latest period for which figures are available.
Simon Burns (Minister of State (Health), Health; Chelmsford, Conservative)
The information requested is shown in the following table.
| May 2010 | April 2012 | |||
| Number | Full-time equivalent | Number | Full-time equivalent | |
| Civil servants total | 2,651 | 2,570 | 2,352 | 2,271 |
| Agency staff contractors total | 834 | 795 | 313 | 305 |