Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the change in total public expenditure on the NHS was in each year between January 2004 and January 2014.

It is only possible to provide these figures from the 2007-08 financial year.

During the Spending Review 2010 period (ie 2011-12 to 2014-15), there have been two significant Machinery of Government changes to transfer functions and spending from the Department of Health to the Department for Communities and Local Government. The spending that related to these function added over £3 billion that would have previously been recorded in the Department of Health’s spending outturn. These changes were only backdated to 2007-08 and therefore no comparable figures are available for financial years before this date.

The following table summarises the spending outturn against the Department of Health’s total Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL), for each financial year since 2007-08, and the change over each previous year.

Spending against total DEL includes NHS commissioners, NHS providers, the Department of Health itself and its arm’s length bodies, including Public Health England and Health Education England.

Notes:

1. Numbers taken from Department of Health Annual Report and Accounts
2. 2007-08 to 2013-14 numbers represent the final spending reported in the year-end accounts.
3. 2014-15 numbers represent the planned spending for this financial year