Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 5 February (HL1920), how many staff and whole time equivalents were attached to the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) before its recent internal restructuring; and how many staff and whole time equivalents now work on OHID responsibilities in teams across the Department.

The latest available data, as of the end of December 2023, shows that there were 777 full time equivalent employees in the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID). As part of an internal restructure within the Department on 1 February 2024, all OHID staff were integrated into the groups of three Directors General, under the clinical and professional leadership of the Deputy Chief Medical Officer.