Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate how much money his Department has spent in Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency since May 2010.

In general, the Department allocates funding to NHS England, which both allocates funding in turn to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and commissions certain services directly itself. The Department also makes allocations to local authorities for public health functions.

The Government has protected the overall health budget for the National Health Service in England. Every CCG in England will continue to benefit from stable real terms funding over the next two years. In 2014-15 every CCG's funding has increased by a minimum of 2.14% and will increase by a minimum of 1.7% in 2015-16. This includes the Lancashire North CCG which covers the Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency.