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.
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 |