Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of planned changes in the level of head-for-head NHS spending in real terms in each year of the 2017 Parliament.

The Government is committed to increasing the National Health Service budget to ensure that patients can get the care they need in a financially sustainable system. The new funding announced in the Autumn Budget 2017 provides real terms growth per head for the NHS between 2017-18 to 2020-21. The profile of growth is front loaded with significant growth above real terms per head in 2017-18 (1.1%) and 2018-19 (0.7%). In 2019-20 and 2020-21 growth is maintained at the rate of real terms growth per head.