Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department (a) records and (b) publishes on the nationality of NHS staff.

NHS Digital, an arm’s length body of the Department, publishes National Health Service Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) workforce statistics, which is drawn from the electronic staff record (ESR), and this includes data on the nationality of staff working in the NHS in England. Nationality data from NHS Digital also includes statistics for staff employed at two foundation trusts which do not use ESR (Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust).

Nationality data is published on a quarterly basis in, March, June, September and December of each year in headcount and full-time equivalent. This data is available from September 2015 to latest data as at December 2017.

This includes data on the following:

- All staff by nationality and staff group in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs);

- Joiners and leavers to and from NHS trusts and CCGs in England, by nationality and age; and

- Joiners and leavers to and from NHS trusts and CCGs by nationality, grade, staff group and Health Education England region.