To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent on (a) agency nurses, (b) locum doctors and (c) other agency staff by each NHS organisation incurring such expenditure in each year from 1997-98 to 2006-07. (241102)

Information is available from 2001-02 for agency nursing including midwifery and health visiting staff, agency medical staff and other agency staff. This information has been placed in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have been employed as (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) administrative or clinical staff in (i) North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust and (ii) England in each year since 1997; and how many were employed on a (A) permanent and (B) part-time basis. (241682)

North Yorkshire and York primary care trust (PCT) was not in existence prior to 2002. It is not possible to map back prior to this as the organisation did not exist, even in another form.

A table which shows the staffing numbers from 2002 for the PCT and the numbers for England in each year since 1997 has been placed in the Library.