Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in (a) his Department and (b) NHS England work in communications.

At the end of June 2025, the Department had 90 full-time equivalent staff working in the Communications Directorate.

In NHS England, there are 328.8 full-time equivalent staff sitting under Communications in the Strategy Directorate. These individuals cover a wide range of communication roles and support functions, including business operations, system and stakeholder engagement, events and visit teams, and Parliamentary briefing and Freedom of Information management. There are a further six members of staff, who work in ‘Communications’ or ‘Comms’ teams in the wider business, which includes individuals working in Freedom of Information management and Parliamentary business.