NHS: Finance

(asked on 19th June 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 Prime Minister’s speech of 18 June 2018 on the NHS, whether revenue dedicated to the Better Care Fund was included in NHS England’s budget in the baseline year for the purposes of calculating that NHS England’s budget would be £394 million a week higher in real terms by 2023-24.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 25th June 2018

Revenue dedicated to the Better Care Fund was included in the 2018-19 baseline for NHS England’s resource budgets for the five-year funding agreement announced by the Prime Minister.

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