Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Chancellor's statement of 17 October 2022 on potential reductions to civil service budgets, what steps she will take to ensure that her Plan for Patients is adequately funded.

‘Our plan for patients’ will be funded by the settlement at the last Spending Review, which increases the National Health Service resource budget in England to £162.6 billion in 2024/25, from £123.7 billion in 2019/20.