questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on agency staff in the NHS in each of the last five years.
answerText: The following table lists the most recent published data on annual agency spend in the National Health Service:YearSpend (£ billion)2017/182.412018/192.402019/202.382020/212.442021/222.96
heading: NHS: Agency Workers