PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(2 June 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) filled and (b) unfilled full-time equivalent roles there were in each of the NHS regional teams in (i) 2023-24, (ii) 2024-25 and (iii) 2025-26.

Asked by:
Steve Barclay (Conservative)

The following table sets out the full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in NHS England’s regional teams as of 30 March 2025:

Directorates / Regions	Budgeted FTE	Staff List FTE	Vacant FTE	Vacancy Rate
Region - East of England	804.1	650.2	153.9	19.10%
Region - London	1,032.50	916.7	115.8	11.20%
Region - Midlands	1,085.70	929.7	156.1	14.40%
Region - North East & Yorkshire	844.7	759.3	85.4	10.10%
Region - North West	756.6	684.7	71.9	9.50%
Region - South East	949.2	783.6	165.5	17.40%
Region - South West	710.3	621.5	88.8	12.50%
Total	6,183.00	5,345.70	837.3	13.50%

Source: NHS England

Notes:

1. Workforce data is collected at a single point as a ‘snapshot’, so we are unable to provide it for a whole financial year.
2. We are unable to provide data at the equivalent time point within 2023/24 as data has not been validated, and the equivalent time point within 2025/26 has not happened yet.

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