Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of non-government spending by (a) individuals, (b) companies and (c) charities on preventative health services in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Non-Government spending on preventative health care is estimated in the UK Health Accounts published by the Office for National Statistics, on a United Kingdom basis. The following table shows the preventive healthcare spending by method of financing for the UK, for 2023, based on the current prices and not adjusted for inflation:

Source: UK Health Accounts, Office for National Statistics

Notes:

1. information relating to the breakdown of insurance claims and revenues for non-Government healthcare providers is typically less granular than Government spending. Preventive spending is reported where it is possible to distinguish services within available datasets, so could represent an underestimate;
2. company financed healthcare mostly concerns occupational healthcare services;
3. preventive spending financed through health insurance and out-of-pocket spending largely relates to preventive dental care, for instance dental check-ups;
4. the estimates concern services that are provided by charities for free, or below market rates, to consumers. It does not include services that are sold by charities at market rates, nor those commissioned by and paid for by the Government; and
5. charity spending relates to a variety of services, the largest being education and health promotion programmes operated by charities.

Estimates do not exactly match the three categories requested, as health insurance spending is from a mixture of individual and corporate policies.