Speeches

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