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.
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.