NHS: Per Capita Costs

(asked on 10th February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the spending per head of population on the National Health Service in England in 1997, 2010, and the latest year for which figures are available.


Answered by
Earl Howe Portrait
Earl Howe
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 20th February 2015

Spend per head of population on the National Health Service in England is shown in table below and is stated in financial years.

Latest available spend per head figures are for the financial year 2012-13.

England NHS health spend per head

Year

Spend per head £

Source

1997-98

712

Office for National Statistics Mid 1997 population projection and net NHS spend 1997-98

2010-11

1,861

HM Treasury Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2014

2012-13

1,912

HM Treasury Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2014

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