Barbara Keeley – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barbara Keeley on 2015-11-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on health and social care for people aged over 65 in each year since 2009-10.
Alistair Burt
The table below shows the current expenditure on healthcare for people aged over 65 since 2009/10. This covers total spend on secondary healthcare, primary medical services and prescribing services. Data for 2013/14 and 2014/15 is not available in the format requested.
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Gross Current Expenditure on health care for people aged 65 and over (£000s) |
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2009/10 |
78,414,543 |
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2010/11 |
82,091,832 |
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2011/12 |
84,768,874 |
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2012/13 |
85,821,639 |
Expenditure on social care for people aged over 65 since 2009/10 from local government funding sources is available on the Health and Social Care Information Centre(HSCIC) (in full) website at the following link. In addition, the National Health Service transferred almost £3.5 billion to local authorities for expenditure on social care, including a transfer worth £1.1 billion in 2014/15. Data is not collected to show how much of this spend is for the elderly compared to working age adults with social care needs.
For 2014/15 HSCIC published provisional data for social care expenditure on 16 September 2015. This can be found at the following link. This is not comparable to previous years because of a change in reporting requirements.
http://www.hscic.gov.uk/pubs/pssexpcosts1415
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