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Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Healthcare in Remote and Rural Areas - Tue 21 May 2024

Mentions:
1: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) rate in the UK for the priority foundation areas, which is a good thing when it comes to filling the vacancies - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Work and Pensions

May. 21 2024

Source Page: Nationwide campaign to build the British workforce of the future
Document: DWP Employer Survey 2022 (PDF)

Found: The UK currently has just under one m illion vacancies, and relatively low unemployment by historic

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Work and Pensions

May. 21 2024

Source Page: Nationwide campaign to build the British workforce of the future
Document: Nationwide campaign to build the British workforce of the future (webpage)

Found: employers In a major speech to business leaders, Mel Stride hailed the “huge opportunity” to fill vacancies

Written Question
General Practitioners: Employment
Tuesday 21st May 2024

Asked by: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green Party - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment, if any, they have made of the number of GPs currently seeking, yet unable to obtain, employment.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

There is no centrally held data on the number of general practice vacancies.

The Government remains committed to growing the number of doctors working in general practice. NHS England has made available a number of recruitment schemes, including the Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme and the Return to Practice Programme.

The headcount of doctors working in general practice in March 2024 was 4,282 more, including 2,709 full time equivalent (FTE) doctors, than in March 2019.

The latest available data, as of March 2024, shows that the headcount of doctors in general practice in England was 47,173, including 37,235 FTE doctors, of whom 37,399 (27,574 FTE) were fully qualified general practioners.

Written Question
General Practitioners: Unemployment
Tuesday 21st May 2024

Asked by: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green Party - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of GPs now seeking and unable to obtain employment.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

There is no centrally held data on the number of general practice vacancies.

The Government remains committed to growing the number of doctors working in general practice. NHS England has made available a number of recruitment schemes, including the Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme and the Return to Practice Programme.

The headcount of doctors working in general practice in March 2024 was 4,282 more, including 2,709 full time equivalent (FTE) doctors, than in March 2019.

The latest available data, as of March 2024, shows that the headcount of doctors in general practice in England was 47,173, including 37,235 FTE doctors, of whom 37,399 (27,574 FTE) were fully qualified general practioners.

Written Question
Probation Service: Vacancies
Tuesday 21st May 2024

Asked by: Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many vacancies there are in the probation service by region.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The workforce position, at 31 March 2024, was 20,758 FTE Staff in Post working in Probation Service grades (including those working in Approved Premises). This is an increase of 728 FTE (3.6%) since 31 March 2023.

Recruitment and retention remain a priority across the Probation Service and we have injected extra funding of more than £155 million a year since 2021 to deliver more robust supervision, recruit more staff and reduce caseloads to keep the public safer.

We have recruited 4,582 trainee Probation Officers between 2020/21 and 2023/24. Many of these trainees have already qualified and taken up Probation Officer posts and we expect the remainder of these intakes to qualify by the end of 2025 and begin to take on Probation Officer caseloads. We will continue to run centralised recruitment campaigns in priority regions to help bolster the number of applications.

Table One: Vacancies across Probation Service Regions, March 2024, all Probation Service grades.

Probation Service Region

Vacancies (FTE)

PS East Midlands

45

PS East of England

204

PS Greater Manchester

18

PS Kent, Surrey & Sussex

100

PS London

446

PS North East

50

PS North West

89

PS South Central

103

PS South West

71

PS Wales

0

PS West Midlands

67

PS Yorkshire & the Humber

109

PS Approved Premises

0

Notes

  1. Data shows average resource across the month, adjusted for joiners and leavers within the month. Data shown as of March 2024, aligning with the most recent HMPPS Workforce Quarterly publication. More recent data cannot be provided due to potentially pre-empting future statistical publications.
  2. Vacancies have been calculated as Target Staffing (Full Time Equivalent - FTE) minus Staff in Post (FTE).
  3. Where the number of Staff in Post (FTE) in a region exceeds Target Staffing (FTE), the number of vacancies has been shown as 0 FTE. Summing the figures in the table will not give the overall number of vacancies across the Probation Service due to the surpluses in some regions that haven’t been shown in the table.
  4. Vacancies have been netted off between grades and business units. As a result, the overall vacancy figures presented mask the presence of vacancies at both grade and business unit level.
  5. Data have been taken from the Workforce Planning Tool and are subject to inaccuracy as a result of the manual nature with which returns are completed. This approach differs from the published statistics, which uses data from the Single Operating Platform (our departmental HR system).
  6. Staff in Post (FTE) has not been adjusted for long-term absences (e.g., Trainee Probation Officer training time). In addition, we have not factored in loans / temporary cover / agency and sessional. The actual resourced position will therefore differ as a result of these.
  7. Trainee Probation Officers are included in the data. Trainees spend a proportion of their time training and the remainder of their time carrying out work at a Band 3 Probation Services Officer level. Both training time and time spent delivering caseload are included in the Staff in Post (FTE) calculations, which means that number of vacancies is lower than the actual gap between Target Staffing and frontline delivery.
Departmental Publication (Transparency)
HM Treasury

May. 20 2024

Source Page: Treasury Minutes – May 2024
Document: (PDF)

Found: The sector employs around 1.6 million people and as at March 2023 there were 152,000 vacancies (9.9%

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
HM Treasury

May. 20 2024

Source Page: Treasury Minutes – May 2024
Document: (PDF)

Found: The sector employs around 1.6 million people and as at March 2023 there were 152,000 vacancies (9.9%

National Audit Office
Borders and immigration - May. 20 2024
The UK border: Implementing an effective trade border (webpage)

Found: complaint or whistleblowing disclosure Our historyAuditing government through the ages JobsSee our current vacancies

Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Ministry of Justice

May. 20 2024

Source Page: Five Wells Prison: Action Plan
Document: inspection report for Five Wells Prison. (PDF)

Found: prison leaders of the education contract held by Weston College, there was still a high number of staff vacancies