Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the ceiling for agency nurse spending for each NHS trust will be made publicly available from 2015-16.

Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority currently have no plans to make publically available the ceilings for agency nurse spending for each trust in 2015-16. However, if members of the public wish to know this information then they can approach individual trusts for this information.

The ceiling levels are available at the following website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nursing-agency-rules