Speech and Language Therapy
(asked on 7th May 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many speech and language therapists are employed in each integrated care board area in England, and how many of these work in criminal justice settings.
The Department does not hold information on the total number of speech and language therapists employed in each integrated care board area in England. Therapists will be employed by National Health Service trusts, where data is held, but will also be directly employed by other providers, including schools, local authorities, and third sector or charitable organisations, for which data is not held centrally. The following table shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) speech and language therapists employed by NHS trusts and integrated care boards in England, as of January 2025, by integrated care board area:
Integrated care board area | FTE speech and language therapists |
Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire | 44 |
Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes | 11 |
Birmingham and Solihull | 288 |
Black Country | 126 |
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire | 70 |
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West | 155 |
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | 225 |
Cheshire and Merseyside | 436 |
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly | 79 |
Coventry and Warwickshire | 157 |
Derby and Derbyshire | 134 |
Devon | 135 |
Dorset | 113 |
Frimley | 93 |
Gloucestershire | 62 |
Greater Manchester | 548 |
Hampshire and Isle of Wight | 160 |
Herefordshire and Worcestershire | 100 |
Hertfordshire and West Essex | 134 |
Humber and North Yorkshire | 174 |
Kent and Medway | 220 |
Lancashire and South Cumbria | 201 |
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland | 123 |
Lincolnshire | 57 |
Mid and South Essex | 65 |
Norfolk and Waveney | 69 |
North Central London | 548 |
North East and North Cumbria | 516 |
North East London | 438 |
North West London | 304 |
Northamptonshire | 47 |
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire | 164 |
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin | 46 |
Somerset | 70 |
South East London | 394 |
South West London | 194 |
South Yorkshire | 224 |
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent | 104 |
Suffolk and North East Essex | 126 |
Surrey Heartlands | 53 |
Sussex | 205 |
West Yorkshire | 328 |
England total | 7,739 |
These staff will provide services in a range of settings, but the Department does not hold information on how many may work in criminal justice settings.