Department of Health and Social Care: Staff

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 22 March 2023.

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Photo of Wes Streeting Wes Streeting Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total number of full-time equivalent staff employed by his Department was in (a) 2022 and (b) each of the last 13 years.

Photo of Will Quince Will Quince Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The following table shows the Department’s total number of fulltime equivalent (FTE) for 2022 and each of the last 13 years.

Year

FTE

2009

2903.4

2010

2572.3

2011

2328.6

2012

2242.0

2013

1839.8

2014

1949.1

2015

1930.5

2016

1756.5

2017

1447.1

2018

1526.1

2019

1684.0

2020

2899.9

2021

3170.0

2022

3778.0

A programme of work is currently underway within the Department to ensure that we have the most efficient headcount to deliver our priorities.

The Department increased in size during this period to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, 1018 FTE joined the Department with the creation of Office for Health Inequalities and Disparities in October 2021. However, the colleagues who transitioned from Public Health England (PHE) were not recorded in the Department data system until early 2022 and therefore do not appear in the 2021 figure on GOV.UK shown here. The 2022 figure includes former PHE colleagues.

Notes:

  1. Figures as of 31 December each year.
  2. Figures from 2012 onwards are taken from published data available as transparency statistics at www.gov.uk/government/collections/dhsc-workforce-management-information.
  3. Figures prior to 2013 have been drawn from the Department’s archives.
  4. Figures published on GOV.UK do not show the full establishment workforce of the Department. Contingent Labour, Secondments In, Fast Streamers and vacancies are not included.

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