Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many times NHS trade unions in England have threatened or balloted for industrial action of NHS staff in relation to pay and non-pay issues in each year since 2005, broken down by (1) union, (2) category of NHS staff, and (3) type of industrial action, whether the industrial action went ahead, and the outcome of any ballots held.

The Department does not hold this information. National Health Service trade unions may ballot their members at a local level as well as national, and that information is not held centrally.