Steve McCabe – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2016-10-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of the staff employed by his Department are non-UK nationals.
David Mowat
Nationality is not a mandatory field in the Department’s Business Management System where the details of staff are registered. This means that a fraction of the workforce are ‘undeclared’ with respect to nationality.
All the figures given in the table below are as of 6 October 2016. These figures do not include contractors, temporary agency workers or the staff of service companies.
Nationality |
Headcount in category |
Proportion of workforce in category |
British |
1,572 |
82% |
Non-UK |
104 |
2% |
Undeclared |
247 |
13% |
Total employed |
1,923 |
100% |