Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people who joined the NHS workforce in England in the last 12 month period for which figures are available are known to have (a) British nationality, (b) European Economic Area nationality other than British and (c) another nationality.
The latest information available is presented in the following table.
Joiners to the National Health Service by nationality group, which is self reported, in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England, 30 September 2015 to 30 September 2016.
| Headcount |
All nationalities | 155,997 |
United Kingdom | 117,795 |
European Economic Area excluding UK | 15,052 |
Rest of the world | 13,149 |
Unknown | 10,024 |
Source: NHS Digital, NHS Hospital & Community Health Service workforce statistics.