NHS: Expenditure

(asked on 18th April 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of average weekly expenditure on the NHS in real terms in each year since 2016.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
This question was answered on 29th April 2024

The below table shows the average weekly and yearly expenditure on the National Health Service in real terms and nominally, each year since 2016, including spending against the Revenue Departmental Expenditure Limit (RDEL) by NHS England, the integrated care boards, and providers:

Year

RDEL spend per year in nominal terms

RDEL spend per year in real terms

RDEL spend per week in real terms

2016/17

£105,735,000,000

£125,293,000,000

£2,409,000,000

2017/18

£109,605,000,000

£127,879,000,000

£2,459,000,000

2018/19

£114,331,000,000

£130,634,000,000

£2,512,000,000

2019/20

£123,750,000,000

£138,145,000,000

£2,657,000,000

2020/21

£143,367,000,000

£151,775,000,000

£2,919,000,000

2021/22

£149,322,000,000

£159,379,000,000

£3,065,000,000

2022/23

£158,347,000,000

£158,347,000,000

£3,045,000,000

Source: table 66 of the Department of Health and Social Care’s annual report.

Note: figures have been adjusted for inflation using HM Treasury’s gross domestic product deflators, as of April 2024.

Reticulating Splines