Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to communicate to the public the value of increases in the health budget.

Documents relating to the recent autumn Budget announcement are published online and can be accessed via the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/autumn-budget-2017

NHS England wrote to all trusts on 15 December 2017 informing them of their individual allocation of the additional £337 million winter funding in 2017/18.

NHS England and NHS Improvement will issue revised allocations and guidance to providers and commissioners shortly.