Maternity Services: Finance
(asked on 5th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the budget for NHS maternity services is for 2022/23; and how much was spent on the provision of maternity services in each of the last five years.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
There is no national budget for maternity services, as this is not commissioned by NHS England. Maternity services are commissioned by integrated care boards based on the needs of the local population.
The following table shows reference cost data for expenditure on National Health Service maternity services in England in each year from 2015/16 to 2019/20.
Financial year | Expenditure on maternity services |
2015/16 | £2.58 billion |
2016/17 | £2.72 billion |
2017/18 | £2.84 billion |
2018/19 | £2.81 billion |
2019/20 | £2.89 billion |
Data since 2020/21 is not currently held as maternity expenditure is derived from reference costs data to 2019/20, the most recently available information.