Question follow-through · 52618
Doctors: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of registered doctors are unemployed.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 15 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
15 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of registered doctors are unemployed.
19 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Office for National Statistics published an analysis showing the number of unemployed people by last occupation at the time of the 2021 Census. This estimated that on the census day, there were 2,200 unemployed people whose last profession was either ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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