Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to allow funding provided to ease winter pressures in the NHS in the 2022-23 financial year to be used for winter planning for the 2023-24 financial year.

Funding for 2022/23 has been made available for that financial year only.

As set out in the Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan, the Government has committed to targeted funding to support services next year. This includes £1 billion to support hospitals to increase capacity in 2023/24; and £1.6 billion of additional social care discharge funding over 2023/24 and 2024/25.