Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on agency nurses by each NHS trust in London in each year since 2010.

This information is not collected centrally.

The Rt. Hon. Member may wish to contact each National Health Service trust directly for further information.

Following the Francis report many trusts increased their spend on temporary staffing to meet safe staffing levels. The Department expects trusts to have a strong grip on their finances, and manage their contract and agency staffing spend (including use of locums) responsibly through effective and efficient workforce planning and management and to minimise temporary staffing costs in future years.