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 people that work in the NHS that have been paid an annual salary of (a) less than and (b) more than £30,000 in each year since 2010.

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.

The following table shows the number of staff whose total earnings are under, equal to and over £30,000 in National Health Service trusts, CCGs, support organisations and central bodies in England, between October and September each year from 2009 to 2018, headcount.

Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics

These figures use the total annual earnings of staff which includes basic pay and non-basic pay elements. Non-basic pay includes, where applicable, unsocial hours payments, on call payments and high cost area supplements. These total figures also include staff working on a part time basis, who tend to have lower annual earnings than those on full time contracts.

The following table shows the number of staff by full time and part time working patterns in NHS trusts, CCGs, support organisations and central bodies in England, as at 30 September each year, 2010 to 2018, headcount:

Around a third of HCHS staff work part time and part time workers are likely to be more highly represented among those who earn less than £30,000.