Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total expenditure on full-time equivalent agency and temporary staff costs was in (a) NHS England, (b) each English region and (c) Bradford Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust in 2015-16.
NHS Improvement has confirmed that a total of £3.64 billion was spent on agency and contract staff in 2015-16. This represents a saving of £300 million to the National Health Service, which had been on course to spend up to £4 billion prior to the controls being put in place. NHS Improvement does not currently hold aggregate data on regional spend on agency and temporary staffing. Each trust publishes its own data, which is publically available. Bradford Teaching Hospital NHS Trust spent £19,071,000 on agency staff in 2015-16.