Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on agency staff in (a) 2012 and (B) 2022.
Agency spend in 2011/12 was £1.69 billion and in 2012/13 was £2.09 billion. The information requested on expenditure on agency for the period 2021/2022 has not yet been validated.