Maternity Services: Finance
(asked on 4th February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the NHS budget was spent on NHS maternity services in each year since 2015.
This question was answered on 15th March 2022
The information requested is shown in the following table. This is taken from Reference Costs data to 2019/20, the most recent data available.
Financial year | Proportion of National Health Service budget |
2015/16 | 2.5% |
2016/17 | 2.6% |
2017/18 | 2.6% |
2018/19 | 2.5% |
2019/20 | 2.3% |