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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (24 October 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff working for the Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust are (a) non-UK EU citizens and (b) citizens of countries outside the EU.

Asked by:
Wes Streeting (Labour)

Answer

NHS Digital collects data on the number of staff working in National Health Service hospitals and community health services in England.

The following table shows the number of non-United Kingdom European Union citizens and citizens of countries outside the EU working at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust as at 31 July 2016.

Full-time equivalent

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

5,531

of which:

Non-UK EU citizens1

514

Citizens of countries outside the EU2

1,085

Source: NHS Digital

Notes:

1 Non-UK EU citizens include staff from the following countries; Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden, as per the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/eu-eea

2 Citizens of countries outside the EU include staff from any country outside the EU and UK. Staff with an unknown nationality are not included in this category.

The nationality field available within the systems upon which these figures are based, contains self-reported information from individual employees.

Nationally over 95,000 NHS staff records do not contain useful data with people choosing not to specify their nationality or not asked to.

In addition, as nationality is self-reported the value entered by an individual may reflect their cultural heritage rather than their country of birth. As such, these figures should be treated with a significant degree of caution. Therefore these figures do not necessarily equate to migrants from other countries, and such data is not captured elsewhere in the workforce systems.

Full-time equivalent figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.

Following a public consultation in 2015, categorisation of trusts and staff groups has changed therefore restricting comparability with previous publications. Because of these changes, these statistics are classed as experimental.

More details regarding these changes can be found in the outcomes of the consultation document available at the link below:

http://digital.nhs.uk/hchs


Answered by:
Philip Dunne (Conservative)
27 October 2016

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