NHS: Agency Workers

(asked on 25th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2022 to Question 80803 on NHS: Agency Workers, if he will publish in the House of Commons Library the total cost to the public purse of agency staff in 2021-22 once figures are centrally validated; and when he expects those figures will be validated.


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Will Quince
This question was answered on 6th March 2023

While the NHS Consolidated Accounts have been published, this does not include an explicit figure for agency spend as it is bundled together with other spend items. We expect the agency data for 2021/22 to be published this spring.

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