Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses there were in (a) West Suffolk Hospital, (b) Ipswich Hospital and (c) England in each year since 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 numbers of qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff in West Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich Hospital, Health Education East of England region and England in each year from September 2004 are set out in the attached table.