Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what forecasts they have made of the number of extra NHS staff required to make operational the additional (1) ambulances, and (2) hospital beds, announced on 30 January; and what estimates they have made of the revenue costs of employing those extra staff.

NHS England has asked systems as part of the 2023/24 planning round to develop and implement integrated urgent and emergency care workforce plans based on capacity and demand assessments in line with local population need. As such, these estimates are still under consideration.