Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2014, Official Report, columns 766-7W on NHS: funding, if he will estimate the cost of the challenge posed by the pressures posed by the pressures of an aging population and the cost of new investment.
In its Fiscal Sustainability Reports – the latest of which was published on 10 July 2014 – the Office for Budget Responsibility publishes estimates of long-term public spending, including health care, up to 2063-64. These estimates incorporate a number of assumptions, including the impact of expected demographic change.