Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 39596

Agency Nurses: Costs

Tabled: 19 March 2025
Answered: 4 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Helen Morgan

Liberal Democrat — North Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average cost to the public purse is of one band 5 nursing hour supplied by (a) On-framework staffing agencies and (b) Off-framework staffing agencies to the NHS in each year since 2019.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Department does not hold the data requested.The Government is committed to reducing off-framework agency use, the cost of which is at a premium, above the agreed framework rates. Additionally, staff hired through off-framework agencies are not subject...
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