Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the UKHSA Advisory Board: finance report, updated on 17 July 2023, on what date he expects the 2024/25 budget settlement for Covid-19 to be confirmed.
The UK Health Security Agency’s COVID-19 budget envelope for 2022/23 to 2024/25 was agreed as part of the Spending Review 2021, at a total of £2,947 million. The COVID-19 budget for financial year 2024/25 will be formally confirmed as part of the Main Estimates, the standard Government annual budgeting process, in the first quarter of 2024.