Andrew Lansley
Shadow Secretary of State for Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent staff there are in each (a) directorate and (b) team in his Department, broken down by payband.
Ben Bradshaw
Minister of State (Regional Affairs) (South West), The Minister of State, Department of Health
The number of full-time equivalent staff in each directorate are presented in the following tables. The figures are for
| Directorate | Administrative officer | Executive officer | Higher executive officer | Senior executive officer | Fast stream | Grade 7 |
| Chief Nursing Officer | 3.8 | 19.5 | 6.0 | 15.9 | 3.0 | 17.0 |
| Commercial | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Commissioning and System Management | 4.0 | 29.5 | 16.0 | 23.0 | 9.0 | 34.2 |
| Communications | 2.8 | 9.4 | 22.0 | 30.7 | 1.0 | 23.0 |
| Equality and Human Rights | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
| Finance and Operations | 46.1 | 131.7 | 112.5 | 94.1 | 12.0 | 83.6 |
| Health Improvement and Protection | 19.9 | 34.2 | 21.7 | 39.8 | 6.0 | 42.7 |
| Office of the Chief Medical Officer | 0.0 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1.8 |
| Office of the NHS Chief Executive | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 |
| NHS Finance, Performance and Operations | 8.9 | 23.0 | 26.6 | 32.4 | 5.4 | 61.9 |
| NHS Medical | 9.0 | 26.0 | 26.4 | 23.1 | 8.0 | 48.1 |
| Policy and Strategy | 4.0 | 16.0 | 15.0 | 10.0 | 12.0 | 25.4 |
| Regional Public Health Groups | 8.8 | 26.2 | 12.8 | 16.1 | 0.0 | 26.6 |
| Research and Development | 0.0 | 12.5 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 12.4 |
| Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships | 6.0 | 26.6 | 12.7 | 13.8 | 7.0 | 36.5 |
| Workforce | 4.0 | 29.1 | 20.0 | 27.9 | 3.0 | 28.6 |
| Other | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.7 |
| Grand total | 120.3 | 393.8 | 301.6 | 340.7 | 69.4 | 452.3 |
| Directorate | Grade 6 | Senior civil service | Special advisers | Unknown | Total |
| Chief Nursing Officer | 8.8 | 11.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 86.0 |
| Commercial | 2.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.0 |
| Commissioning and System Management | 21.0 | 27.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 165.6 |
| Communications | 6.0 | 5.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.5 |
| Equality and Human Rights | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11.9 |
| Finance and Operations | 38.9 | 41.8 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 565.7 |
| Health Improvement and Protection | 26.4 | 27.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 221.6 |
| Office of the Chief Medical Officer | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 14.8 |
| Office of the NHS Chief Executive | 1.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 14.0 |
| NHS Finance, Performance and Operations | 17.7 | 18.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 194.7 |
| NHS Medical | 19.5 | 18.9 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 179.4 |
| Policy and Strategy | 22.8 | 26.8 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 133.0 |
| Regional Public Health Groups | 8.5 | 22.9 | 0.0 | 10.0 | 132.0 |
| Research and Development | 6.8 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 52.7 |
| Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships | 20.3 | 18.7 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 144.6 |
| Workforce | 17.9 | 14.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 145.5 |
| Other | 1.8 | 6.9 | 0.0 | 21.0 | 37.4 |
| Grand total | 221.3 | 257.4 | 2.0 | 48.4 | 2,207.3 |
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