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.
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 |
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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.