Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements

(asked on 6th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the planned additional expenditure related to reciprocal healthcare arrangements provided for in his Department's Supplementary Estimate 2017-18, how much such additional expenditure there has been in 2017-18 to date.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 12th March 2018

The initial spending plan for reciprocal healthcare included in the 2017-18 Main Estimate was £630 million. At the 2017-18 Supplementary Estimate the expected full-year expenditure had increased during the financial year to £897 million, resulting in additional revenue funding of £267 million being agreed with HM Treasury. At month nine (December) expenditure incurred to date was estimated at £727 million.

The additional £267 million of funding was to cover additional expenditure due to a weaker sterling, increased numbers of pensioners abroad and higher than anticipated costs of healthcare in the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

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