Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) EU and )b) overseas nationals employed as semi-skilled ancillary staff in (a) National Health Service hospitals and (b) the private care sector as care assistants.
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the number of support staff in Central Functions and Hotel, Property and Estates, by nationality group, in National Health Service trusts and CCGs in England, as at 31 October 2019, the latest available data (full time equivalent).
This is not a measure of the number of ancillary staff employed in NHS funded services carried out in the private sector. This does not include staff involved in contracted out services.
Care setting | Level | European Union | European Economic Area | Rest of World | Unknown |
All care settings | All levels | 6,893 | 33 | 6,267 | 7,472 |
Central functions | Healthcare Assistant | - | - | - | 6 |
Central functions | Support Worker | 148 | - | 156 | 186 |
Central functions | Clerical and administrative | 2,578 | 25 | 2,613 | 3,665 |
Hotel, property and estates | Clerical and administrative | 223 | 1 | 171 | 304 |
Hotel, property and estates | Estates (maintenance and works) | 368 | 1 | 235 | 413 |
Hotel, property and estates | Healthcare Assistant | 15 | - | 10 | 1 |
Hotel, property and estates | Support Worker | 3,561 | 6 | 3,083 | 2,897 |