NHS: Northern Ireland
(asked on 28th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Duncan of Springbank on 25 June (HL Deb, col 5), what additional funding will be provided to the health services in Northern Ireland under the government’s £20 billion funding plan for the NHS; and when it will be allocated to health and social care in Northern Ireland.
The final Barnett consequentials for all three devolved administrations will be confirmed at upcoming Fiscal Events and at the next Spending Review, as per the usual process set out in the Statement of Funding Policy.
As a result of the government’s funding plan for the NHS in England, indicative additions to the Northern Ireland block grant are set out in the table below.
£ billion | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 |
Northern Ireland | 0.20 | 0.31 | 0.45 | 0.59 | 0.76 |
This information was set out in the paper deposited in the House of Commons Library (DEP2018-0598) by the Department of Health and Social Care on 18 June 2018 and is available here: http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2018-0598/NHS_Settlement-Numbers_corrected.docx.
Funding decisions would be best taken by a restored Northern Ireland Executive. In the interim it will be for the Northern Ireland Civil Service to allocate funding.