Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the financial cost of agency, bank, and other temporary staffing costs at NHS and NHS foundation trusts (a) in total and (b) broken down by trust in 2021-2022.

The validated data is not yet published for 2021/22.

While the NHS Consolidated Accounts have been published, this does not include an explicit figure for agency or bank spend as it is bundled together with other spend items.

We expect the 2021/22 agency and bank spend data, for the National Health Service as a whole and for individual trusts, to be published this spring.