Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has spent on permanent nursing staff in each year since 2010.

Information is not available in the format requested.

The amounts spent by Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust on nursing, midwifery and health visiting for NHS and non-NHS staff are shown in the following table.

Source: Unaudited Financial Returns 2010-11, 2011-12

Notes:

1. It is not possible to separately identify “nursing staff” expenditure from “nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff” expenditure. The closest match is expenditure on “nursing, midwifery and health visiting” for NHS and non-NHS staff.

2. Locums and bank staff (whether organised by the Trust itself or NHS Professionals) are included in the “NHS Staff” figures, unless the payment for their services is to a private employment agency. Private agency staff procured via NHS Professionals are included in the “non-NHS staff” figures.

3. The data is taken from the annual Financial Returns, which are a means for the NHS to provide planning and costing information to the Department, and these essentially provide a more detailed breakdown of individual expenditure lines reported in the audited summarisation schedules. The Financial Returns data is not itself audited, but is instead validated by reference to the audited summarisation schedules from which the NHS Summarised Accounts are prepared.

4. The Department ceased to collect data via the annual Financial Returns for NHS trusts from 2012-13 onwards. Data has therefore only been provided for 2010-11 and 2011-12.