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Junior Doctors

Question for Department of Health

UIN 14841, tabled on 4 November 2015

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.

Answered on

9 November 2015

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


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