PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
NHS: Re-employment (14 July 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS staff have been made redundant and subsequently re-employed by NHS organisations on a (a) permanent and (b) fixed-term contract basis since May 2010.

Asked by:
Debbie Abrahams (Labour)

The number of National Health Service staff estimated to have been made redundant since May 2010 and subsequently, up until March 2015, re-employed by an NHS organisation on a permanent basis is 3,700 and a fixed term contract basis is 1,868.

Returning on Permanent Contracts

Permanent	Redundancies	Returned
2010-11	5,521	889
2011-12	6,819	1,051
2012-13	6,786	993
2013-14	4,693	591
2014-15	2,482	176

Returning on Fixed Term Contracts

Fixed Term	Redundancies	Returned
2010-11	5,521	475
2011-12	6,819	512
2012-13	6,786	478
2013-14	4,693	288
2014-15	2,482	115

These estimates are derived from unvalidated data from the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Data Warehouse, and so only cover redundancies from, and re-employment to, those organisation that use ESR. Two trusts do not use ESR.

Figures for 2014-15 cover redundancies and returns to December 2014.

Answered by:
Ben Gummer (Conservative)
20 July 2015