Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS has spent on temporary NHS bank and agency nurses in each of the last three years.
The information requested is shown in the following table.
| 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 |
Nursing bank expenditure | £1,127,729,000 | £1,254,899,000 | £1,538,238,000 |
Nursing agency expenditure | £843,282,000 | £878,521,000 | £837,823,000 |