§ Mr. LansleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff are employed in the Workforce Development Confederation; and from where they were deployed into strategic health authorities. [173836]
§ Mr. HuttonThe information requested is not available. Prior to the integration of workforce development confederations (WDCs) into strategic health authorities (SHAs), staff employed by WDCs had contracts of employment with SHAs from the date SHAs were established in April 2002. Prior to this, WDC staff had contracts of employment with their host national health service organisation, which were mainly health authorities and NHS trusts, These staff have been counted in the workforce census as SHA staff in the 2002 and 2003 censuses and prior to that were counted as part of the staff in their NHS host organisation.
Information on the number of staff employed by SHAs is shown in the following table.
Hospital, public health medicine and community health services (HCHS) staff and NHS hospital and community health services:
medical and non-medical staff directly employed by strategic health authorities in England as at 30 September 2003
headcount Strategic health authorities All medical and dental and non-
medical staff
England 3,540 Q01 Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 65 Q02 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 70 Q03 Essex 69 Q04 North West London 109 Q05 North Central London 131 Q06 North East London 163 Q07 South East London 104 Q08 South West London 91 Q09 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear 105 Q10 County Durham and Tees Valley 92 Q11 North and East Yorkshire and Northern 67 Lincolnshire Q12 West Yorkshire 82 Q13 Cumbria and Lancashire 55 Q14 Greater Manchester 169 Q15 Cheshire and Merseyside 208 Q16 Thames Valley 133 Q17 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 144 Q18 Kent and Medway 89 Q19 Surrey and Sussex 299 Q20 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 66 Q21 South West Peninsula 114 Q22 Dorset and Somerset 103 Q23 South Yorkshire 402 Q24 Trent 139 Q25 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland 86 Q26 Shropshire and Staffordshire 93 Q27 Birmingham and The Black Country 189 Q28 Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and 103 Worcestershire Note: Medical staff figures do not include staff employed by other organisations even when they work in the SHA. Source: Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census Department of Health Medical and Dental Workforce Census