Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the results of NHS Improvement's June 2016 enquiries to sustainability and transformation plan leaders on services dependent on locums; and how many NHS services were identified as being dependent on locums as a result of those inquiries.

NHS Improvement has no plans to report on the limited and incomplete data collected following its July enquiries to Sustainability and Transformation Plan leaders. However, in autumn 2016, NHS Improvement signalled to trusts that it will complete a comprehensive data collection on locums by specialty, to be published through the quarterly reporting process.