Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the number of (a) nurses, (b) teachers and (c) police offers that could be employed via an increase in spending equivalent to 0.2 per cent of GDP.

The Government values the vital contribution that public sector workers make across the UK, delivering the public services we all rely on. The Treasury does not hold information on how many additional public sector workers could be employed via a specific increase in spending, which would depend on a variety of factors, however the Government is committed to ensuring we can recruit and retain the right set of people to run our public services and has plans in place to do so. This includes a commitment to deliver 13,000 more neighbourhood policing personnel, deliver an additional 6,500 teachers, and refresh the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.