Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on agency staff in the NHS in each of the last five years.
The following table lists the most recent published data on annual agency spend in the National Health Service:
Year | Spend (£ billion) |
2017/18 | 2.41 |
2018/19 | 2.40 |
2019/20 | 2.38 |
2020/21 | 2.44 |
2021/22 | 2.96 |