Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses employed by the NHS worked part-time in each calendar year from 2010.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre publish an annual workforce census, which shows staff working in the National Health Service in England. The latest information from the census was published in March 2014 and shows the position at 30 September 2013, the next annual census will be published in March 2015 showing the position as at 30 September 2014. The Health and Social Care Information Centre also publish monthly National Health Service workforce statistics. The latest data as at September 2014 was published on 17 December.

The information available is set out in the attached table.