Department of Health and Social Care: Public Expenditure

(asked on 22nd February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will place in the Library the anticipated depreciation overspend or underspend for his Department in 2017-18.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 27th February 2018

The term ‘National Health Service trusts’ has been interpreted as meaning NHS providers, which include NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts.

The Department does not set budgets to this level of disaggregation for the NHS provider sector. NHS providers fund their spending, via income received from NHS commissioners in return for the provision of healthcare services to their local population.

Depreciation spending outturns for each year since 2010-11 are reported in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts.

Spending depreciation on property, plant and equipment and amortisation of intangible assets for NHS providers each year since 2010-11 is listed in the table below.

Year

£000

2010-11

1,922,024

2011-12

1,995,865

2012-13

2,154,022

2013-14

2,139,840

2014-15

2,163,823

2015-16

2,186,390

2016-17

2,194,462

The Department has an agreed ring-fenced budget for depreciation spending, however depreciation spending by NHS providers is not included within this ring-fenced budget. That budget for 2017-18 is £1,511 million, as reported in the 2016-17 Annual Report and Accounts. Total spending against this budget will be reported in the Annual Report and Accounts 2017-18 due to be published later this year.

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