Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the oral contribution of the Foreign Secretary of 27 November 2017, Official Report, column 55, how much additional funding will be provided to the NHS each week after the UK leaves the EU.

The Department and the Government as a whole are determined to make a success of leaving the European Union and we are always keen to seek opportunities to continue to sustain and improve the National Health Service.

The Government is assessing the implications of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU on the health sector and is undertaking detailed implementation planning for all scenarios.

The Government has already committed to backing the NHS with an additional £10 billion, in real terms, by 2020/21. We recognised that demand on the NHS has been higher than projected, which is why we have now committed to backing the NHS in England further so that by 2019/20 it will have received an additional £2.8 billion of revenue funding for frontline services than previously planned over the period. This includes £337 million this winter to help trusts to increase capacity. We have also committed £3.5 billion of new capital investment by 2022/23 to transform its estate and drive further efficiency savings.