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Agency Nurses

Question for Department of Health

UIN 11034, tabled on 9 October 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the ceiling for agency nurse spending for each NHS trust will be made publicly available from 2015-16.

Answered on

19 October 2015

Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority currently have no plans to make publically available the ceilings for agency nurse spending for each trust in 2015-16. However, if members of the public wish to know this information then they can approach individual trusts for this information.


The ceiling levels are available at the following website:


https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nursing-agency-rules