Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff working for the Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust have been (a) non-UK EU citizens and (b) citizens of countries outside the EU in each year since 2015.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the number of non-United Kingdom European Union and non EU Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) staff employed in Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust between September 2015 and December 2017.
HCHS staff in Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, as at the last day in each specified month, headcount
HCHS staff in Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust | September | September | September | December |
European Union excluding UK | 440 | 547 | 541 | 533 |
European Economic Area | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Rest of World | 1,159 | 1,141 | 1,175 | 1,196 |
Unknown | 211 | 193 | 166 | 163 |
Source: NHS Digital NHS HCHS workforce statistics.