NHS: Finance

(asked on 14th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of how much additional funding the NHS will need in 2021 to respond to the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 18th December 2020

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been clear from the outset that the National Health Service will get whatever funding it needs to respond to the pandemic.

In 2020-21, the Government has made £51.9 billion available for the health and adult social care system’s response to COVID-19. The Spending Review 2020 settlement provides further support for the health and care system’s response to COVID-19,?totalling £17.3 billion. In addition, the Spending Review provided an additional £3 billion for the NHS next year, on top of the long-term settlement, to support the NHS recovery from the impact of COVID-19.

The Government stands ready to continue its pragmatic approach in 2021-22, for example by providing further funding to make vaccines widely available and to cover operationally necessary costs incurred by the NHS through its continued response to COVID-19.

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