Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many migrants from EU countries have been employed by the NHS in England in each year from 2015 to date.
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the number of non-United Kingdom European Union nationals employed in the National Health Service in England and London as at September 2019, latest available data and each year since 2015, headcount.
- | September 2015 | September 2016 | September 2017 | September 2018 | September 2019 |
England | 52,808 | 59,796 | 61,974 | 63,484 | 65,992 |
London | 17,732 | 19,567 | 20,395 | 20,782 | 21,464 |