NHS: Finance
(asked on 1st November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the official figure of £10 billion extra in funding for the NHS by 2020–21 is correct.
The Spending Review in November 2015 settled the level of funding that the National Health Service in England will receive over the course of this Parliament. The NHS will be receiving £10 billion more per year in real terms by 2020-21 compared to 2014-15.
In 2014-15, the NHS budget was £98.1 billion, in 2020-21 it will be £119.9 billion. That is a £21.8 billion increase in cash terms, or £10 billion in real terms.
The following table provides the agreed figures as set out in the Spending Review 2015 document:
| NHS funding | Annual real terms increase | Cumulative delivery of £10 billion |
2014-15 | £98.1 billion | n/a | n/a |
2015-16 | £101.3 billion | 1.9% | 2 |
2016-17 | £106.8 billion | 3.6% | 6 |
2017-18 | £110.2 billion | 1.3% | 7 |
2018-19 | £112.7 billion | 0.4% | 8 |
2019-20 | £115.8 billion | 0.7% | 9 |
2020-21 | £119.9 billion | 1.4% | 10 |