NHS: Finance

(asked on 5th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February 2018 to Question 127238, what comparative estimate he has made of the change in the level of real term funding for the NHS in 2017-18 and 2020-21 .


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 8th March 2018

The change in the level of National Health Service funding between 2017-18 and 2020-21 is presented in the table below.

NHS England

NHS England Total Departmental Expenditure Limit (cash) £ billions

Cash increase %

NHS England Total Departmental Expenditure Limit (2017-18 prices) £ billions

Real terms increase %

2017-18

109.9

3.7%

109.9

2.1%

2018-19

114.0

3.8%

112.4

2.3%

2019-20

115.9

2.1%

112.6

0.2%

2020-21

119.1

2.8%

113.8

1.0%

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