Luciana Berger – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were working in his Department on sexual health matters in each year since 2010; and how many people have worked in (a) his Department and (b) Public Health England on sexual health matters since the formation of Public Health England.
Jane Ellison
The following table shows staff numbers working directly on sexual health matters within the Department since 2010. There are also a number of senior civil servants and other staff, such as analysts, working in the Department who input to work on sexual health and a wide range of other issues.
|
Year |
Department staff numbers sexual health |
Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) |
|
2010 (estimated) |
19 |
17.2 |
|
2011 |
10 |
10 |
|
2012 |
9 |
8.7 |
|
2013 |
6 |
5.7 |
|
2014 |
6 |
5.7 |
The total number of Public Health England staff working on sexual health is 255.3 WTE.
Public Health England’s head count includes staff working on Health Protection, field epidemiology, microbiology services and Health and Wellbeing staff. Some staff are externally funded and are not exclusive to sexual health, working across disciplines.
