Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much was spent by the NHS on Continuing Health Care for each of the last three years for which information is available.

The following table shows the total amount spent on packages of care for standard National Health Service Continuing Healthcare (CHC), Fast Track NHS CHC and NHS CHC Healthcare Personal Health Budgets in the last three years:

It should be noted that these figures do not include administrative costs, costs for children’s NHS CHC or expenditure for NHS CHC Previously Unassessed Periods of Care