NHS: Finance
(asked on 11th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the evidence of Sir Simon Stevens to the Public Accounts Committee on 11 January 2017, whether real terms funding for the NHS will fall in 2018-19.
The National Health Service will be receiving £10 billion more per year in real terms by 2020-21 compared to 2014-15. Real terms funding for the NHS in 2018-19 will rise by 0.3%, as illustrated in the following table which sets out the financial settlement allocated to the NHS.
NHS budget for Spending Review period1
Revenue and capital combined | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 |
Total (£ million) | 100,500 | 105,975 | 109,337 | 111,824 | 114,929 | 119,035 |
Real terms increase on previous year (%) |
| 3.7% | 1.3% | 0.3% | 0.7% | 1.3% |
Real terms increase on 2015-16 baseline (£ billion) |
| 3.8 | 5.3 | 5.8 | 6.7 | 8.4 |
Real terms increase on 2014-15 baseline (£ billion) | 2.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 10.0 |
1These figures differ from the NHS Total Departmental Expenditure Limit figures announced at Spending Review due to a number of technical adjustments, including transfers of functions. The main transfer of function is the move of public health services for 0-5 year olds from NHS England to local government. There are a small number of other transfers including the move of the Leadership Academy to Health Education England. To ensure comparability of numbers, in this table £500 million has been removed from the 2015-16 baseline, representing 6 months of funding for 0-5 public health services between 1 April and 30 September 2015 and these other planned transfers.