Nurses: Pay

(asked on 3rd November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of NHS England payroll expenditure excluding VAT on (a) permanent nursing staff and (b) agency nursing staff in 2016-17.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 11th November 2016

The Department is able to provide payroll expenditure for all Qualified Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Staff on employment contracts with the National Health Service. This information for 2014-15 and 2015-16 is tabled below. VAT costs do not apply to staff on NHS Employment contracts.


The requested information for 2016-17 is not yet available.

Year

Payroll costs for Qualified Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Staff in NHS Hospital and Community Health Services in England. (£)

2014-15

13.3 billion

2015-16

13.5 billion


The Department does not hold national data on agency staff that is broken down by staff group.

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