§ Mr. WareingTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will estimate the number and the cost of agency nurses employed by each of the district health authorities in the Mersey region in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. Newton[holding answer 11 January 1988]: The table shows expenditure on agency nursing staff in each of the 10 district health authorities in the Mersey region for the last five years. Information on the total number of agency nurses employed in each year which relates to the table is not available centrally.
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Year District health authority 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 £ £ £ £ £ Chester — — — — — Crewe — — 1,050 4,257 33,314 Halton — 4,031 10,156 38,345 112,017 Macclesfield 1,489 65 10,011 6,540 50,063 Warrington — — — — — Liverpool 67,407 115,959 415,912 426,854 551,626 St. Helens and Knowsley — — — — — South Sefton (Merseyside) 9,974 — — — 401 Wirral — — — — —