Question follow-through · 54417
NHS: Agency Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the potential savings to the public purse from reduced usage of on-framework staffing agencies.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the potential savings to the public purse from reduced usage of on-framework staffing agencies.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jun 2025
Answer published
We have answered this question referencing the Planning Guidance for 2024/25, where NHSE England stated that trusts should end the use of off-framework agencies.The 2025/26 NHS priorities and operational planning guidance aims to improve procurement, cont...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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