Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to Blackburn and Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) in each of the last 5 years; and if he will make an assessment o the effect of changes to the level on that funding on the provision of treatments by that CCG.

NHS England publishes clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocations on its website. The published CCG allocations for NHS Blackburn and Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for the past five years for core services are set out in the table below. It should be noted that these figures are as published, and do not reflect any adjustments that may have occurred since the time of publication.

The allocation of funding to local CCGs is informed by the estimation of the relative health needs of local areas, based on a set of funding formulae. This 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.