§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of staff in Adur, Arun and Worthing Primary Care Trust are agency staff. [185519]
§ Ms Rosie WintertonThe information requested is not collected centrally.
The NHS Professionals special health authority has been established to provide strategic management of the temporary labour market within the national health service. This new organisation, which became fully operational on April 1, 2004, will in future collect and analyse information on agency usage in the NHS trusts, in which the service is implemented. However, this will not capture all agency usage within the NHS, as not all organisations utilise NHS Professionals.