Question follow-through · 39597
NHS: Agency Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of banning the use of off-framework staffing agencies by the NHS.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 2 Apr 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of banning the use of off-framework staffing agencies by the NHS.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
The planning guidance for 2024/25 set out the expectation that trusts should end off-framework agency use. The National Health Service is now operating at the lowest levels of off-framework use on record.The planning guidance for 2025/26 sets out, for the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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