Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of (a) total and (b) per capita funding from his Department's budget on (i) health and (ii) mental health in England was spent in (A) Telford constituency and (B) Wrekin in the last 12 months; and where Telford and Wrekin are ranked in England for such spending.

NHS England allocates funding to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), rather than to individual constituencies.

The level of funding a CCG receives is informed by the estimation of the relative health needs of local areas, based on a set of funding formulae. These formulae produce a target allocation, or 'fair share', for each area based on a complex assessment of factors such as demography, morbidity, deprivation, and the unavoidable cost of providing services in different areas. As the need for different types of health services varies, there are separate formulae for each of the CCG core responsibilities, specialised services and primary medical care.

NHS England does not allocate budgets for specific services such as mental health. CCGs determine the level of expenditure appropriate for their population, based on their assessment of local health needs.

The figures for Telford and Wrekin CCG’s total expenditure on health and mental health, and this as a proportion of NHS England’s budget in 2016-17, is presented in the table below.