Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on employing junior doctors in each of the last five years; and how many junior doctors were employed in each of those years.
The figures are:
Financial year | Substantive junior doctor paybill | Average number of full-time-equivalent junior doctors over the year |
2014/15 | £3.1 billon | 53,000 |
2013/14 | £3 billion | 52,500 |
2012/13 | £3 billion | 52,000 |
2011/12 | £3 billion | 51,500 |
2010/11 | £3 billion | 51,000 |