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Hospitals: Staff

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 18874, tabled on 15 June 2022

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 (i) 2020-21 and (ii) 2021-2022.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answered on

21 June 2022

This answer is a correction from the original answer.

The following table shows the expenditure on bank and agency staff in 2020/21. The information requested for 2021/22 is currently being collated and centrally verified.

2020/21

Agency staff

£2,436,415,000

Bank staff

£4,663,858,942

Original answer

The following table shows the expenditure on bank and agency staff in 2020/21. The information requested for 2021/22 is currently being collated and centrally verified.

2020/21

Agency staff

£2,436,415.000

Bank staff

£4,663,858,942

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