Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the announcement entitled £240 million social care investment to ease NHS winter pressures, published by his Department on 2 October 2018, what recent estimate his Department has made of the (a) Resources Department Expenditure Limit, (b) Capital Department Expenditure Limit and (c) Total Department Expenditure Limit for his Department in 2018/19.

The Department’s spending plans for 2018-19 Resources Departmental Expenditure Limit (RDEL) and Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (CDEL) were published as part of the 2018-19 Main Supply Estimates to Parliament in April 2018.

Total Departmental Expenditure Limit (TDEL), under HM Treasury conventions, is calculated as the sum of RDEL and CDEL less the ring-fenced element of RDEL that is for depreciation. The Department’s ring-fenced RDEL budget for 2018-19 is £1.531 billion.

Estimates are:

Note:

All figures are £ billion. RDEL is presented here including ringfenced funding of depreciation costs, of £1.5 billion. TDEL = RDEL + CDEL – RF.

Revisions to the Department’s 2018-19 spending plans will be published by HM Treasury in February 2019 as part of the Supplementary Supply Estimates.