Department of Health and Social Care: Staff
(asked on 27th November 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many officials were working in his Department, excluding Arm’s Length Bodies, on (a) 13 November 2023, (b) 5 July 2024 and (c) 27 November 2024.
The Department only holds data on the number of officials working in the Department at the end of each calendar month. The following table shows the data for the end of each calendar month from July 2022 to October 2024:
Month | Headcount | Full-time equivalent |
July 2022 | 4,037 | 3,916 |
August 2022 | 3,981 | 3,840 |
September 2022 | 4,015 | 3,874 |
October 2022 | 3,979 | 3,838 |
November 2022 | 3,978 | 3,837 |
December 2022 | 3,913 | 3778 |
January 2023 | 3,843 | 3,708 |
February 2023 | 3,730 | 3,598 |
March 2023 | 3,670 | 3,541 |
April 2023 | 3,533 | 3,407 |
May 2023 | 3,516 | 3,392 |
June 2023 | 3,456 | 3,335 |
July 2023 | 3,374 | 3,254 |
August 23 | 3,327 | 3,208 |
September 2023 | 3,306 | 3,187 |
October 2023 | 3,301 | 3,184 |
November 2023 | 3,287 | 3,165 |
December 2023 | 3,185 | 3,073 |
January 2024 | 3,185 | 3,074 |
February 2024 | 3,213 | 3,103 |
March 2024 | 3,253 | 3,146 |
April 2024 | 3,308 | 3,201 |
May 2024 | 3,336 | 3,232 |
June 2024 | 3,403 | 3,294 |
July 2024 | 3,450 | 3,340 |
August 2024 | 3,475 | 3,367 |
September 2024 | 3,544 | 3,431 |
October 2024 | 3,599 | 3,483 |