Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimates he has made of the number vacancies for anaesthetists in London hospitals; and if he will make a statement.

NHS Digital publish the total full time equivalent (FTE) adverts placed on NHS Jobs. The data can be found at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/april-2015---june-2020-experimental-statistics

NHS Jobs data shows that for anaesthetists in the London there were 80.9 FTE adverts placed in the three-month period April 2020-June 2020.