Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of GDP was spent on health and social care in each year since 2010.
The following table shows the overall Department of Health and Social Care’s spend in England as a proportion of England’s GDP in each year. This does not include spend on adult social care funded by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, funding for children’s social care funded by the Department for Education or spend on social care funded from council tax.
Financial year | Spend |
2010/11 | 7.3% |
2011/12 | 7.2% |
2012/13 | 7.1% |
2013/14 | 7.1% |
2014/15 | 7.0% |
2015/16 | 7.0% |
2016/17 | 6.9% |
2017/18 | 6.9% |
2018/19 | 6.9% |
2019/20 | 7.3% |