Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS child and adolescent psychiatrists have been employed in the West Midlands in the last two years for which data is available.

NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) child and adolescent psychiatrists employed in the West Midlands between September 2015 and September 2017 and latest data available.

NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists in the West Midlands, as at 30 September for each specified year and latest data available, FTE:

Source: NHS Digital Monthly HCHS workforce statistics.

Notes:

FTE figures are given as this is the most accurate measure of service capacity.

FTE figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.