Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health visitors there were in each month since May 2010.

The attached table shows how many health visitors there were in each month in England from May 2010 to September 2015, which is the latest available figure from the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s monthly workforce statistics. Data from April 2012 onwards is taken from the Health Visitor Minimum Data Set and also includes numbers of health visitors employed by organisations that do not use the Electronic Staff Record but do provide NHS-funded services, such as local authorities.

Full-time equivalent figures are used as this is the most accurate measure of service capacity.