Public Health: Expenditure

(asked on 9th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent from ring-fenced public health budgets in each year since 2012.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 25th June 2020

The following table shows the ring-fenced grant in each year since inception in 2013/14, together with the movement in public health reserves each year (the amount unspent). Data for 2012 are not available as the grant has only been in existence since 2013/14.

Spend from the ring-fenced public health budgets, 2013/14 – 2018/19

Year

Ring-Fenced Grant (£ billion)

Movement on Reserves carried / forward (£ billion)

Net Spend from Grant in the year (£ billion)

2013-14

2.66

0.21

2.46

2014-15

2.79

0.11

2.68

2015-16

3.03

-0.06

3.09

2016-17

3.39

-0.01

3.40

2017-18

3.30

-0.01

3.31

2018-19

3.22

0.00

3.22

Total

18.40

0.24

18.16

Notes:

  1. 2019/20 data has not yet been published.
  2. The grant was increased on 1 September 2015 to include public health spend on Children’s 0-5.
  3. The above figures include Manchester local authorities who have received their grant through a Business Rates Retention pilot since 2017/18.
  4. These data are published at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing

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