§ Mr. Kirkwoodasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is his latest estimate of the cost of agency nurses to the National Health Service.
§ Mr. NewtonThe annual accounts of health authorities in England for 1985–86 record total expenditure on the employment of non-National Health Service (agency etc.) nursing staff as £51,297,230.
We collect no estimates of this expenditure but figures from the accounts for 1986–87 will be available in the autumn.