Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost to NHS hospitals was of using (a) agency staff and (b) bank staff in each year since 2010-11.
Comparable figures for agency expenditure are available from 2012-13 in the following table.
Year | £ million |
2012-13 | 2,113 |
2013-14 | 2,589 |
2014-15 | 3,190 |
2015-16 | 3,635 |
2016-17 | 2,935 |
2017-18 | 2,407 |
Comparable figures for bank staff expenditure are available from 2015-16 in the following table.
Year | £ million |
2015-16 | 1,768 |
2016-17 | 2,511 |
2017-18 | 2,935 |