Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional funding her Department has made available to Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to help tackle health inequalities.

Allocations to integrated care boards (ICBs) made through NHS England, including NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, are adjusted for health inequalities and unmet need in the weighted capitation formula, which was recently reviewed by the independent Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation. ICB allocations were published in April 2022 and are available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/allocation-of-resources-2022-23/