Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2017 to Question 4862 on Locums: Accident and Emergency Departments, how much each NHS Trust spent on locum staff in each of the last seven years.
Data is not available for spend on locum staff in each National Health Service trust in each of the last seven years. However, the total figures for agency spend are available for each year from 2013-14 to 2016-17.
Year | Total English NHS trusts spending on agency staff (£ billion) |
2016/17 | 2.935 |
2015/16 | 3.632 |
2014/15 | 3.189 |
2013/14 | 2.589 |