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Written Question
Nurses: Schools
Friday 19th December 2014

Asked by: Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative - Stratford-on-Avon)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the total annual average cost to the public purse of employing a school nurse.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

Approximately 1200 school nurses are employed by the NHS, and in 2013-14, the estimated average paybill per full time equivalent (FTE) school nurse was £41,061. This includes earnings plus the costs of employer pension and national insurance contributions.