Karin Smyth – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Karin Smyth on 2015-11-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on employing junior doctors in each of the last five years; and how many junior doctors were employed in each of those years.
Ben Gummer
The figures are:
Financial year |
Substantive junior doctor paybill |
Average number of full-time-equivalent junior doctors over the year |
2014/15 |
£3.1 billon |
53,000 |
2013/14 |
£3 billion |
52,500 |
2012/13 |
£3 billion |
52,000 |
2011/12 |
£3 billion |
51,500 |
2010/11 |
£3 billion |
51,000 |