Locums: Expenditure
(asked on 15th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on locum services in each of the last ten years.
This question was answered on 30th March 2023
The following table shows the National Health Service agency spend for the years 2013/14 to 2020/21. 2021/22 data for agency is yet to be validated and published.
Year | Total agency spend £ billion |
2013/14 | 2.55 |
2014/15 | 3.33 |
2015/16 | 3.70 |
2016/17 | 2.93 |
2017/18 | 2.40 |
2018/19 | 2.39 |
2019/20 | 2.38 |
2020/21 | 2.44 |
The Department does not hold this data for general practice.