Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Major Conditions Strategy: case for change and our strategic framework, published by his Department on 21 August 2023, what recent estimate his Department has made of the cost of implementing the framework.

Funding for the development of the Strategy will come out of the Department’s existing funding allocation. This funding is not separately identified.

The funding provided at the Autumn Statement comes on top of the 2021 Spending Review Settlement, which provided a 33% total cash increase of £43.9 billion when compared to 2019/20, when our budget outturn was £133.5 billion.

As part of the Strategy, we will identifying innovative actions to help alleviate pressure on the National Health Service, such as maximising use of new technologies to screen individuals for conditions.