Question follow-through · 29010
NHS: Agency Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the prevalence in the use of off-framework agency staff by NHS providers; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of using these staff on NHS financ
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 14 Feb 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the prevalence in the use of off-framework agency staff by NHS providers; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of using these staff on NHS financ
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Feb 2025
Answer published
The National Health Service is now operating at the lowest levels of off-framework on record, since a peak in month four of 2022/23, with the highest compliance on capped rates since the introduction of the Agency Rules in 2016.The Government is committed...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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