Lord Warner – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Warner on 2016-01-20.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of gross domestic product was spent on (1) the NHS and public health, (2) publicly financed adult social care, and (3) both of those, in (a) 1996–97, (b) 2000–01, (c) 2009–10, and (d) for each year thereafter up to and including 2014–15.
Lord Prior of Brampton
Spend as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) is usually reported on a United Kingdom basis.
The Department is responsible for reporting on health spend in England and is not in a position to provide equivalent spend figures for health and adult social care by the devolved administrations.
HM Treasury publish UK health spend figures as a percentage of GDP which are shown in table below.
Spend on health in UK as % of GDP
|
Year |
UK Public Spending on health as a % of GDP |
|
1996/97 |
5.0% |
|
2000/01 |
5.2% |
|
2009/10 |
7.8% |
|
2010/11 |
7.6% |
|
2011/12 |
7.4% |
|
2012/13 |
7.5% |
|
2013/14 |
7.5% |
|
2014/15 |
7.4% |
Source: Table 4.4 HMT, Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2015.
Numbers shown do not include total spend on adult social care
