Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of annual expenditure by (a) his Department and (b) the NHS is used to fund frontline services.
In 2022/23, funding for Departmental and system administration costs will be £3.3 billion, representing 1.9% of the Department’s Revenue Departmental Expenditure Limit (RDEL) of £176.1 billion. The rest of this RDEL funding is allocated to NHS England, other arm’s-length bodies and other Departmentally-managed programme budgets for frontline spending.