Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the cost savings from reductions in NHS management since 2010 have been part of his Department's QIPP savings programme.

The 2010 Spending Review protected health funding in real terms. However, in order to continue to meet rising demands from an ageing population while improving services, it was estimated that up to £20 billion of efficiency savings would be required over the four years from 2011-12 to 2014-15. This became known as the ‘QIPP’ (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) challenge.

The National Health Service is on track to deliver these efficiency savings, having reported around £15 billion of efficiencies in the first three years, all of which are being reinvested into frontline care.

As part of this wider efficiency challenge and as a result of our reforms, modernisation is also expected to save £4.9 billion cumulatively over this Parliament, through reductions in administration costs - and £1.5 billion a year from 2014-15 onwards.