Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Prime Minister’s of 18 June 2018 on the NHS, what (a) baseline year and (b) baseline NHS England budget was used to calculate that NHS England’s budget would be £394 million a week higher in real terms by 2023-24.

The baseline year for the five-year funding agreement, covering NHS England resource budgets, is 2018-19. The 2018-19 baseline has been uplifted by £800 million to take account of additional funding that the Government will provide to the National Health Service in the current financial year to cover Agenda for Change pay deal costs – as previously announced. This baseline excludes NHS England revenue budgets for depreciation and impairments, which will be handled separately.

This information is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-sets-out-5-year-nhs-funding-plan