Public Expenditure

(asked on 21st November 2022) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer of Lord Bates on 5 February 2018 (HL4939), whether they will publish an updated table including (1) pensions, (2) health, and (3) total managed expenditure, for 2021–22.


Answered by
Baroness Penn Portrait
Baroness Penn
Minister on Leave (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State)
This question was answered on 30th November 2022

The requested information is in the table:

1978-79

1996-97

2009-10

2015-16

2016-17

2021-22

(1) National insurance-funded pensions (£billion) (1)

7.6

32.0

66.8

89.3

91.5

104.5

as a percentage of Total Managed Expenditure

9.48%

9.78%

9.26%

11.23%

11.24%

9.86%

(2) UK Health Expenditure (£billion) (2)

7.8

42.8

116.9

138.5

142.6

216.8

as a percentage of Total Managed Expenditure

9.79%

13.08%

16.19%

17.42%

17.52%

20.45%

Total Managed Expenditure (£billion) (3)

79.7

327.3

721.9

794.9

813.8

1,060.3

Data Sources:

(1) Figures up to 2016-17 taken from benefit expenditure and caseload tables published by the Department of Work and Pensions. The figure for 2021-22 taken from the DWP Annual Report and Accounts. Figures for National insurance-funded pensions have been provided in line with the request in the initial PQ referred to.

(2) Data from 2009-10 onwards taken from table 4.2 of the Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis (PESA) 2022. Data for 1996-97 are as at PESA 2020. 1978-79 data taken from HoC Briefing Paper on NHS Funding and expenditure.

(3) Data published by the Office for National Statistics consistent with PESA 2022.

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