Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff (a) are employed directly by, (b) are seconded to and (c) work under contract in Public Health England.
The number of staff within Public Health England (PHE), reported as both number of separate individual persons (headcount) and Whole Time Equivalents (WTE) as at 30 September 2018 are available in the following table.
| Headcount | WTE |
Employed directly by PHE | 5,395 | 5,004 |
Seconded to PHE | 30 | 11.73 |
Work under contract in PHE* | 63 | 61.8 |
Notes:
*‘PHE has interpreted “work under contract” as “contingent labour”.