Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of funding in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, (c) 2021-22, (d) 2022-23 and (e) 2023-24 for (i) the acute sector, (ii) primary care, (iii) cancer services, (iv) mental health services, (e) community services, (f) NHS IT and digital services, (g) maternity services, (h) medicines and pharmaceuticals, (j) mental health, (k) diabetes and (l) dementia services; and if he will make a statement.

Alongside publication of the NHS’s Long Term Plan, the Government has confirmed its final cash settlement for the National Health Service, which will see the NHS budget grow by £33.9 billion in cash terms by 2023-24, compared to 2018-19. This is equivalent to the £20.5 billion real terms increase set out last June and reiterated at Budget 2018.

The following table confirms the NHS England resource budget in each year under this final settlement, which has been agreed with the NHS as the basis of its fully costed Plan. This excludes NHS England revenue budgets for depreciation and impairments, which will be handled separately. Furthermore, it excludes additional funding for NHS pension costs arising as a result of the ongoing revaluation of public sector pensions that the Treasury has made provision for, as outlined in June 2018 and at Budget 2018.

The Department does not hold the requested breakdown of funding into the service and sector categories listed. How the NHS budget set out above is spent will depend on the commissioning decisions of individual commissioner organisations.