Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much (a) revenue and (b) capital funding has been allocated to NHS IT programmes in (i) 2017-18, (ii) 2018-19, (iii) 2019-20, (iv) 2020-21 and (v) 2021-22.

Funding for the cross-system digital transformation portfolio of national health and social care programmes and live services is shown in the following table.

The split of funding between revenue and capital reflects the mix of programmes and services that make up the digital transformation portfolio and the fact that, for many of the programmes, capital expenditure features more heavily earlier in the development cycle with the proportion of revenue expenditure increasing as programmes movie into their later stages and transition into live services.

Funding for 2021-22 and beyond will be confirmed through the National Health Service Long Term Plan and the next Spending Review.

Funding for local IT programmes or programmes not covered by the digital transformation portfolio is not included as this information is not collected centrally.