Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 30 March 2023.
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Labour, Streatham
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on locum services in each of the last ten years.
Will Quince
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The following table shows the National Health Service agency spend for the years 2013/14 to 2020/21. 2021/22 data for agency is yet to be validated and published.
Year | Total agency spend £ billion |
2013/14 | 2.55 |
2014/15 | 3.33 |
2015/16 | 3.70 |
2016/17 | 2.93 |
2017/18 | 2.40 |
2018/19 | 2.39 |
2019/20 | 2.38 |
2020/21 | 2.44 |
The Department does not hold this data for general practice.
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