Public Health: Finance

(asked on 31st October 2024) - 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 total health and social care budget was allocated to the public health grant in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Andrew Gwynne Portrait
Andrew Gwynne
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 28th November 2024

The proportion of the Department of Health and Social Care budget allocated to the local authority Public Health Grant over the last 5 years is shown in the table:

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

2024-25

Total PH Grant quantum (£m) (i)

3,134

3,279

3,324

3,417

3,530

3,603

Total DHSC Budget (£m) (ii)

134,184

181,441

183,548

177,095

182,634

187,636

% of DHSC Budget that is the PH grant

2.34%

1.81%

1.81%

1.93%

1.93%

1.92%

(i) the Public Health Grant includes the notional amounts for the 10 Greater Manchester Local Authorities who are part of a business rates retention scheme and no longer receive a public health grant; and (ii) the DHSC budget for 2024/25 is the planned budget as set out in the Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2024 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/public-expenditure-statistical-analyses-2024

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