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 .
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% |