NHS: Agency Workers

(asked on 24th January 2023) - View Source
Questioner
Matt Western Portrait
Matt Western
(Labour - Warwick and Leamington)

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 agencies in each year since 2012; and what proportion that spend is of the NHS budget in each of those years.

Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 14th February 2023

The table below sets out the agency spend for the years 2011/12 to 2020/21 and its proportion against the National Health Service budget for those years. 2021/22 data for agency is yet to be validated and published.

Year

Total agency spend £ billions

Proportion of NHS budget

2011/12

1.69

1.78%

2012/13

2.09

2.13%

2013/14

2.55

2.72%

2014/15

3.33

3.43%

2015/16

3.70

3.67%

2016/17

2.93

2.77%

2017/18

2.40

2.19%

2018/19

2.39

2.09%

2019/20

2.38

1.92%

2020/21

2.44

1.7%

NHS budget data source: HM Treasury’s Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses and the data is NHS RDEL, available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/public-expenditure-statistical-analyses-pesa

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