Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2018 to Question 184831 on Armed Forces: Mental Health Services, when he plans to provide verified figures of the number of non-permanent staff employed by Defence Medical Services in mental health care roles at the end of each financial year since 2011; and what the shortfall in FTE in the number of permanent staff employed by Defence Medical Services against total posts in the roles of (a) psychiatrists, (b) psychologists, (c) mental health nurses and (d) social workers was at the end of each financial year since 2011.

The attached table shows the number of Temporary Healthcare Workers (non-permanent staff) employed by the Defence Medical Services (DMS) in Mental Healthcare (MH) roles at the end of each Financial Year (FY) since 2011.