NHS Trusts: Debts
(asked on 22nd February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of NHS and NHS foundation trusts in financial deficit in 2021-2022.
The Department has set out in its Annual Report and Accounts 2021/22 the following table which shows the number of National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts in a financial deficit position in each financial year. The table shows that at the end of the financial year 2021/22, 24 of 215 trusts were in a financial deficit position.
| 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
Gross Deficit | (2,433) | (2,755) | (1,560) | (158) | (126) |
Gross Surplus | 1,337 | 1,889 | 567 | 363 | 442 |
Adjustments | 105 | 39 | 323 | 450 | 240 |
Net (Deficit) / Surplus | (991) | (827) | (670) | 655 | 556 |
Number of trusts in deficit | 101 | 107 | 53 | 42 | 24 |
Number of trusts in surplus / balance | 133 | 123 | 173 | 177 | 191 |
Note: Other adjustments relate to minor reporting adjustments relating to differences between control totals and reported surplus/(deficit), where reported surplus/(deficit) includes items such as donated asset income and depreciation, changes in provisions discount rates and prior period adjustments not included in control totals.