NHS: Buildings

(asked on 25th March 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average cost of energy bills were for NHS buildings in each year since 2015.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 3rd April 2025

The annual Estates Return Information Collection (ERIC) collects data on the energy costs of National Health Service organisations. This data has been consistently reported since 2018/19. The following table shows the cost of energy bills for NHS trusts as reported in ERIC, from 2018/19 to 2023/24:

Year

Total

Mean average per reporting trust

2018/19

£667,000,000

£2,900,000

2019/20

£672,000,000

£3,000,000

2020/21

£653,000,000

£3,000,000

2021/22

£779,000,000

£3,700,000

2022/23

£1,195,000,000

£5,700,000

2023/24

£1,380,000,000

£6,600,000

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