NHS: Surgery

(asked on 1st February 2021) - 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 Spending Review 2020, what progress has he made on disbursing the additional £1 billion of funding to tackle the elective backlog in the NHS.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 15th February 2021

Arrangements for distributing the funding are still under consideration as the National Health Service continues to work through the current COVID-19 surge.

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