Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the number of full-time equivalent workforce vacancies in the NHS in each year since 2010.

National Health Service workforce vacancy statistics are published quarterly at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey

This information includes the NHS Vacancies Survey, which pre-dates the NHS Vacancy Statistics series, which collected data from 2005 to 31 March 2010. Following the discontinuation of the Survey, data on vacancies between 2010 and 2015 is not held centrally. As the data collected in each survey is based on different methodologies, the data is not comparable.