Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding his Department has provided for NHS services in Swindon in each year since 2010.

The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table:

Total operating revenue, split by revenue from patient care activities and other operating revenue for the financial years 2010-11 to 2013-14

Source: Audited summarisation schedules of NHS Trusts, 2010-11 to 2013-14; Individually published accounts of Foundation Trusts 2010-11 to 2013-14

Notes:

We have interpreted “how much funding his Department has provided for NHS services” to mean the total operating revenue for those NHS trusts and foundation trusts (FTs) that are located in Swindon. These are shown in the table above; however they may also serve a wider geographical area than Swindon alone. The table covers Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust and South West Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust.

In contrast to primary care trusts until 31 March 2013, and now NHS England and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), NHS trusts and FTs are not funded directly by the Secretary of State from sums voted by Parliament.

NHS trusts and FTs are semi-autonomous organisations whose income derives from the provision of services to commissioners through what might be described as trading activity.

The NHS trust and FT regimes have similarities to the regime for Government Trading Funds, where expenditure for Government activity is met from income from third parties, rather than direct funding from resources voted to the Department.