Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2016 to Question 51771, what assessment he has made of the effect that the UK's current level of healthcare expenditure on long-term care, as set out in the report of the Office for National Statistics, How does UK healthcare spending compare internationally?, published on 1 November 2016, is having on the emergency healthcare services.

No specific assessment has been made of the effect that the current level United Kingdom healthcare expenditure which is spent on long-term care, as defined by the Office for National Statistics, is having on the emergency healthcare services. Health is a devolved matter, and issues of long term care spend and associated pressures and implications on emergency healthcare services in the devolved administrations should be addressed accordingly.