Lord Warner – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Warner on 2015-11-25.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the resource Departmental Expenditure Count figure for the NHS in 2016–17, set out in Table 2.9 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, includes provision for a rolled forward overspend from 2015–16; and if not, how any such overspend will be treated.

Lord O’Neill of Gatley

The Department of Health has plans in place to manage Trust deficits in 2015-16 within the overall health budget.

The agreed Spending Review funding supports the NHS’s own detailed assessment of pressures over the Parliament – including from an ageing and growing population. In 2016-17 total NHS funding will increase by £3.8bn in real terms, equivalent to a 3.6 per cent real terms increase.