NHS: Expenditure

(asked on 20th September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 28 January 2020 to Question 4740 on NHS: Expenditure, how much NHS England and clinical commissioning groups have spent in aggregate on (a) mental health services, (b) acute health services, (c) social care services, (d) primary care services and (e) other main areas of spending in each year since 2015-16; and how much those organisations plan to spend in aggregate in each of those areas in 2021-22.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 12th October 2021

The information requested is shown in the following table.

2015-16 £ billion

2016-17 £ billion

2017-18 £ billion

2018-19 £ billion

2019-20 £ billion

Specialised services

14.8

15.4

16.4

17.2

18.5

Primary medical care

8.7

9.1

9.4

9.7

10.6

Community services

7.1

7.3

7.4

7.5

8.1

Continuing care

4.3

4.7

4.6

4.7

5.0

Clinical commissioning group (CCG) acute

38.2

40.1

41.4

42.9

45.9

CCG core mental health

7.3

7.6

8.1

8.5

9.3

Other

18.9

17.8

18.3

18.6

18.4

Total programme spend

99.4

102.0

105.5

109.1

115.7

Of which:

Payments to local authorities

3.1

3.1

3.3

3.5

3.6

NHS England and NHS Improvement have advised that the 2020-21 accounts are currently being finalised.

Planning for budgets in the second half of 2021-22 and is underway therefore information on expenditure in these areas in not yet available.

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