Justin Madders – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-10-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what level of funding has been (a) requested by and (b) allocated to NHS England for (i) 2017-18, (ii) 2018-19 and (iii) 2019-20.
Mr Philip Dunne
The Spending Review settled the level of funding that the National Health Service in England will receive over the course of this Parliament, with the NHS England Chief Executive a full party to the discussions with HM Treasury. As the Chief Executive said at the time the Spending Review was announced, “our case for the NHS has been heard and actively supported’’. Regular discussions around the finances of the NHS continue to take place between my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State and the Chief Executive of NHS England.
The NHS will be receiving £10 billion more per year in real terms by 2020-21 compared to 2014-15. The following table sets out the financial settlement allocated to the NHS.
NHS budget for Spending Review period
|
Revenue and capital combined |
2015-16 |
2016-17 |
2017-18 |
2018-19 |
2019-20 |
2020-21 |
|
Total (£ million) |
100,500 |
105,975 |
109,337 |
111,824 |
114,929 |
119,035 |
|
Real terms increase on previous year (%) |
3.7% |
1.3% |
0.3% |
0.7% |
1.3% |
|
|
Real terms increase on 2015-16 baseline (£ billion) |
3.8 |
5.3 |
5.8 |
6.7 |
8.4 |
|
|
Real terms increase on 2014-15 baseline (£ billion) |
2.0 |
6.0 |
7.0 |
8.0 |
9.0 |
10.0 |
Note:
These figures differ from the NHS Total Departmental Expenditure Limit (TDEL) figures announced at the Spending Review due to a number of technical adjustments, including transfers of functions. The main transfer of function is the move of 0-5 public health services from NHS England to local government. There are a small number of other transfers including the move of the Leadership Academy to Health Education England. To ensure comparability of numbers, in this table £500 million has been removed from the 2015-16 baseline, representing 6 months of funding for 0-5 public health services between 1 April and 30 September 2015 and these other planned transfers.
