Agency Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give for each district health authority, regional health authority, special health authority, and for England as a whole the amount spent on agency staff for each year since 1987 and for the latest available year.

[holding answer 12 March 1992]: The information, which is derived from annual accounts

Total revenue expenditure on non-NHS (agency, etc.) staff
	1987–88 £ (cash)	1988–89 £ (cash)	1989–90 £ (cash)	1990–91 £ (cash)
Northern regional health authority	122,371	151,306	183,836	96,133
Hartlepool	18,733	5,538	30,410	79,736
North Tees	16,486	27,571	0	15,008
South Tees	435,021	569,875	540,069	360,587
East Cumbria	90,628	97,941	109,007	117,503
South Cumbria	91,692	74,880	109,195	60,705
West Cumbria	54,979	64,030	39,999	54,571
Darlington	314,896	154,067	246,541	438,420
Durham	85,031	204,624	19,661	50,431
North West Durham	50,947	91,928	5,042	27,855
South West Durham	0	0	0	0
Northumberland	42,835	29,114	30,093	12,440
Gateshead	0	29,977	105,435	138,908
Newcastle	122,543	101,775	159,949	968,019
North Tyneside	89,331	65,189	130,367	166,277
South Tyneside	91,772	45,475	34,666	80,841
Sunderland	80,465	89,553	156,815	69,338
Northern region total	1,707,730	1,802,843	1,900,085	2,736,772
Yorkshire regional health authority	68,575	82,940	211,022	186,881
Hull	374,644	257,545	270,058	301,040
East Yorks	303,707	242,172	216,573	111,846
Grimsby	290,769	243,584	415,612	461,954
Scunthorpe	181,049	228,714	87,796	94,472
Northallerton	0	0	0	98,588
York	118,860	288,820	279,915	207,812
Scarborough	492,494	340,459	337,421	221,960
Harrogate	147,860	168,457	179,803	228,228
Bradford	670,368	726,030	880,794	1,025,534
Airedale	37,364	19,939	15,525	39,647
Calderdale	462,592	496,776	370,302	209,220
Huddersfield	23,119	26,953	66,526	57,919
Dewsbury	33,946	5,969	90,955	109,696
Leeds Western	1,869799	2,533,830	3,274,651	2,629,311
Leeds Eastern	506,698	749,710	1,152,806	1,334,620
Wakefield	449,460	348,417	431,231	442,089
Pontefract	237,028	147,342	154,856	251,802
Yorkshire region total	6,268,332	6,907,657	8,435,846	8,012,619
Trent regional health authority	294,698	300,236	325,810	202,386
North Derbyshire	31,738	98,581	234,532	176,156
South Derbyshire	595,635	477,658	512,592	333,341
Leicestershire	530,858	763,651	1,242,231	806,257
North Lincolnshire	105,119	120,848	160,367	133,818
South Lincolnshire	583,200	623,673	621,831	544,590
Bassetlaw	0	42,215	170,314	220,211
Central Nottinghamshire	65,002	40,657	63,406	232,172
Nottingham	501,317	454,044	455,369	757,044
Barnsley	65,465	63,308	112,928	117,057
Doncaster	224,243	206,050	195,525	259,518
Rotherham	146,223	259,528	429,098	590,632
Sheffield	1,277,009	1,849,679	3,484,517	3,155,054
Trent region total	4,420,507	5,300,128	8,008,520	7,528,236
East Anglian regional health authority	475,878	802,505	1,374,541	1,846,612
Cambridge	1,521,781	1,656,476	2,179,186	1,565,006
Peterborough	676,536	619,743	589,200	509,803
West Suffolk	410,296	491,299	602,125	837,760
East Suffolk	303,075	533,803	655,222	1,014,282
Norwich	1,875,080	1,555,447	1,482,742	1,342,194
Great Yarmouth and Waveney	436,536	359,775	377,276	400,635
West Norfolk and Wisbech	388,409	452,406	497,413	397,316

submitted to the Department for the financial years 1987–88 to 1990–91-the latest available-is shown in the table.

	1987–88 £ (cash)	1988–89 £ (cash)	1989–90 £ (cash)	1990–91 £ (cash)
Huntingdon	90,488	132,924	198,498	764,506
East Anglian region total	6,178,079	6,604,378	7,956,203	8,678,114
North West Thames regional health authority	2,299,214	727,892	729,071	884,125
North Bedfordshire	591,093	538,398	519,366	424,593
South Bedfordshire	820,269	1,022,665	1,243,620	1,621,391
North Hertfordshire	1,071,328	1,206,162	1,555,862	1,911,468
East Hertfordshire	951,014	882,852	675,886	752,335
North West Hertfordshire	1,567,927	1,719,755	1,919,530	1,991,275
South West Hertfordshire	1,261,893	1,721,574	1,729,753	2,114,156
Barnet	3,409,043	4,372,478	5,084,348	5,064,702
Harrow	2,289,898	2,429,707	2,906,290	3,269,381
Hillingdon	2,796,748	3,742,080	4,190,196	3,348,431
Hounslow and Spelthorne	3,179,646	3,830,287	4,547,753	3,907,046
Ealing	1,597,487	2,372,980	3,143,666	3,253,397
Riverside	9,905,227	13,590,643	15,020,274	11,040,240
Parkside	7,785,034	9,436,938	11,277,056	9,863,888
North West Thames region total	39,525,821	47,594,411	54,542,671	49,446,428
North East Thames regional health authority	738,317	859,563	937,619	721,659
Basildon and Thurrock	1,576,965	2,059,683	2,393,580	1,363,868
Mid Essex	1,206,645	1,204,844	1,148,747	1,007,351
North East Essex	393,908	752,040	971,582	861,628
West Essex	1,205,271	1,025,548	1,371,384	1,245,951
Southend	1,980,270	2,296,332	2,120,877	2,006,720
Barking, Havering and Brentwood	2,812,714	2,788,896	2,186,979	1,793,355
Hampstead	3,137,349	4,238,981	5,072,956	4,440,927
City and Hackney	4,854,313	6,802,822	7,436,144	7,102,272
Newham	3,112,504	3,232,217	3,619,816	4,278,542
Tower Hamlets	3,193,918	4,342,609	5,293,025	4,762,839
Enfield	2,218,174	2,022,592	1,981,352	2,064,315
Haringey	2,737,355	2,468,426	3,569,347	3,493,981
Redbridge	2,281,034	2,486,399	2,996,419	2,079,569
Waltham Forest	3,979,398	4,682,746	5,206,875	5,673,948
Bloomsbury and Islington	14,014,663	17,711,380	18,564,424	16,152,205
North East Thames region total	49,442,798	59,011,078	64,871,126	59,049,130
South East Thames regional health authority	1,019,536	1,462,288	796,115	590,079
Brighton	1,497,134	2,111,328	2,600,706	2,154,798
Eastbourne	989,148	1,052,220	937,118	894,674
Hastings	765,009	732,564	967,282	817,694
South East Kent	596,850	534,040	600,897	357,573
Canterbury and Thanet	1,105,938	1,229,828	1,225,943	1,000,535
Dartford and Gravesham	2,370,141	2,177,132	2,099,310	1,098,097
Maidstone	1,221,563	965,653	844,706	773,787
Medway	787,278	923,396	1,080,877	1,912,306
Tunbridge Wells	1,515,017	2,198,385	2,549,673	1,364,468
Bexley	1,037,467	1,057,577	1,311,721	1,157,721
Greenwich	2,220,621	2,674,043	2,670,592	2,444,405
Bromley	1,734,511	2,550,508	3,098,195	2,138,229
West Lambeth	4,044,238	5,240,423	6,131,448	3,710,181
Camberwell	4,381,014	4,787,608	6,135,868	7,039,915
Lewisham and North Southwark	4,165,801	5,631,563	5,187,217	4,945,197
South East Thames region total	29,451,266	35,328,556	38,237,668	32,399,659
South West Thames regional health authority	4,125,246	3,442,085	4,090,940	1,767,941
North West Surrey	1,416,863	1,418,310	2,547,056	2,255,178
West Surrey and North East Hampshire	1,311,438	1,584,613	1,665,467	1,176,231
South West Surrey	1,427,241	1,938,917	1,866,119	1,525,951
Mid Surrey	856,057	1,255,626	1,566,838	1,273,307
East Surrey	1,880,246	2,439,164	2,888,940	1,900,255
Chichester	450,957	591,739	805,124	645,371
Mid Downs	1,150,744	1,384,841	1,556,396	1,288,472
Worthing	1,311,811	1,392,828	1,702,995	1,540,308
Croydon	1,446,044	2,384,516	3,467,328	2,649,097
Kingston and Esher	1,666,994	2,437,871	3,049,237	1,748,899
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton	2,687,663	3,097,592	3,299,278	3,397,120
Wandsworth	5,245,180	6,200,298	7,310,733	4,883,203
Merton and Sutton	2,114,184	2,913,701	2,852,301	2,419,863

	1987–88 £ (cash)	1988–89 £ (cash)	1989–90 £ (cash)	1990–91 £ (cash)
South West Thames region total	27,090,668	32,482,101	38,668,752	28,471,196
Wessex regional health authority	538,495	359,860	214,285	667,732
East Dorset	1,483,282	1,703,900	2,034,615	1,812,459
West Dorset	298,835	366,168	461,944	527,303
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire	667,152	1,023,047	1,253,703	1,415,997
Southampton and South West Hampshire	678,522	610,280	1,127,391	1,053,254
Winchester	569,488	764,819	702,203	584,851
Basingstoke	832,146	1,234,165	1,395,171	1,071,689
Salisbury	433,641	336,344	418,191	437,442
Swindon	353,095	460,172	711,407	804,305
Bath	268,719	346,062	827,694	979,203
Isle of Wight	232,666	442,206	974,080	827,582
Wessex region total	6,356,041	7,647,023	10,120,684	10,181,817
Oxford regional health authority	129,673	327,235	735,085	527,375
East Berkshire	1,964,409	2,135,708	2,440,727	1,997,510
West Berkshire	1,259,707	1,474,065	1,754,567	1,790,170
Aylesbury	1,057,468	1,215,867	1,187,034	1,041,672
Wycombe	587,818	647,502	645,455	522,144
Milton Keynes	370,248	603,210	690,050	375,893
Kettering	194,847	223,515	287,835	285,144
Northampton	284,477	518,735	762,548	630,322
Oxfordshire	624,718	978,589	1,361,879	1,084,462
Oxford region total	6,473,365	8,124,426	9,865,180	8,254,692
South Western regional health authority	484,000	498,941	679,450	835,586
Bristol and Weston	870,341	1,427,086	1,964,462	2,086,772
Frenchay	191,581	378,586	758,969	1,229,122
Southmead	385,695	405,633	520,437	556,042
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	261,374	263,452	281,408	350,875
Exeter	493,777	647,282	1,028,593	666,534
North Devon	222,920	193,294	249,417	261,510
Plymouth	265,221	336,871	665,431	1,106,159
Torbay	150,855	179,697	221,672	283,306
Cheltenham	175,424	366,690	603,368	545,015
Gloucester	70,231	106,558	112,332	157,212
Somerset	1,219,532	1,144,346	1,275,176	1,459,015
South Western region total	4,790,951	5,948,436	8,360,715	9,537,148
West Midlands regional health authority	730,773	755,235	791,136	1,152,371
Bromsgrove and Rcdditch	336,575	187,481	215,171	327,382
Herefordshire	129,256	156,257	285,567	398,690
Kidderminster	100,275	107,993	120,621	165,699
Worcester	535,924	615,610	1,197,012	1,622,959
Shropshire	184,187	104,640	263,915	488,022
Mid Staffs	87,262	201,680	259,417	357,971
North Staffs	246,491	295,718	280,954	359,734
South East Staffs	169,574	197,927	254,502	255,658
Rugby	275,708	333,652	369,078	295,023
North Warwickshire	226,802	181,189	240,086	281,029
South Warwickshire	386,444	313,797	346,493	493,518
Central Birmingham	1,096,622	1,176,816	1,926,228	4,113,048
East Birmingham	623,485	728,890	1,393,344	1,504,775
North Birmingham	468,028	286,357	340,191	323,158
South Birmingham	939,572	744,906	982,011	854,728
West Birmingham	686,553	1,248,416	1,550,390	1,367,969
Coventry	421,659	612,652	861,914	635,468
Dudley	226,484	541,503	851,751	807,849
Sandwell	330,893	477,915	447,402	205,281
Solihull	315,479	201,299	186,268	342,793
Walsall	445,706	443,617	533,675	610,182
Wolverhampton	666,328	634,398	791,357	465,332
West Midlands region total	9,630,080	10,547,948	14,488,483	17,428,639
Mersey regional health authority	244,866	271,163	253,517	288,395
Chester	110,888	24,224	229,033	67,143
Crewe	496,125	350,167	519,320	639,719
Halton	217,425	353,701	369,752	267,952
Macclesfield	276,859	285,794	538,806	613,345
Warrington	227,261	219,578	264,482	30,584
Liverpool	770,672	375,875	2,094,580	2,510,559

	1987–88 £ (cash)	1988–89 £ (cash)	1989–90 £ (cash)	1990–91 £ (cash)
St. Helens and Knowsley	96,422	44,602	81,166	133,408
Southport and Formby	284,061	258,126	247,071	315,320
South Sefton	163,903	439,085	668,066	491,794
Wirral	92,277	157,465	269,355	285,823
Mersey region total	2,980,759	2,779,780	5,535,148	5,644,042
North Western regional health authority	18,969	4,552	100,542	94,215
Lancaster	43,603	57,988	43,165	74,386
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde	249,381	286,763	267,094	340,762
Preston	287,932	388,428	335,075	493,246
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley	0	0	118,621	114,180
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale	57,073	276,988	116,619	138,652
West Lancashire	118,769	177,447	570,483	741,067
Chorley and South Ribble	19,142	27,648	14,863	57,141
Bolton	526,670	700,095	586,073	413,544
Bury	115,890	71,054	178,085	300,077
North Manchester	150,309	320,374	446,372	993,235
Central Manchester	372,029	494,026	816,384	1,152,637
South Manchester	90,689	675,087	589,147	1,245,214
Oldham	344,533	353,911	273,386	171,600
Rochdale	100,777	50,608	60,548	65,388
Salford	363,522	355,484	255,378	525,580
Stockport	139,237	152,253	163,522	187,236
Tameside and Glossop	212,375	213,735	214,070	166,320
Trafford	202,788	242,912	112,842	192,333
Wigan	29,689	42,892	209,149	228,576
North Western region total	3,443,377	4,892,245	5,471,418	7,695,389
Hospitals for Sick Children	3,007,397	3,929,924	5,655,215	5,364,730
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery	1,886,045	2,145,783	2,706,325	2,286,274
Moorfields Eye Hospital	1,192,738	1,697,004	1,580,001	1,204,326
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals	1,146,088	1,351,302	2,316,199	1,530,689
National Heart and Lung Hospitals	1,409,469	2,272,109	2,804,712	3,682,776
Royal Marsden Hospital	1,394,752	1,783,790	2,295,757	1,926,012
Hammersmith and Queen Charlottes Hospital	3,367,977	3,675,845	3,280,373	3,472,062
Eastman Dental Hospital	271,154	339,793	380,587	394,333
SHA total	13,675,620	17,195,550	21,019,169	19,861,202
England	211,435,394	252,166,560	297,481,668	274,925,083

Source:

Annual accounts of regional and district health authorities in England and those of the special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals.

Notes:

1. The table excludes the similar but comparatively small costs of staff wholly or mainly concerned with capital projects and which are charged to capital expenditure by the health authorities. Such costs totalled as follows:

	£000 (cash)
1987–88	2,449
1988–89	2,876
1989–90	4,612
1990–91	4,899

2. The table also excludes any expenditure incurred by special health authorities other than those for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals.

Volume 205: debated on Friday 13 March 1992