Healthwatch: Expenditure
(asked on 21st May 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department provided to (a) Healthwatch England and (b) Local Healthwatch in (i) 2023, (ii) 2024 and (iii) 2025.
The following table shows the funding provided for Healthwatch England and Local Healthwatch. The funding shown for Local Healthwatch is only one element of the non-ringfenced funding provided to local authorities for Local Healthwatch, with the larger proportion having been rolled into the local government finance settlement in 2011 to 2012.
Organisation | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | 2025/26 |
Healthwatch England | £3,208,000 | £3,299,760 | £3,343,688 | £3,349,630 |
Local Healthwatch | £14,150,000 | £14,150,000 | £14,150,000 | £14,150,000 |
Notes:
- funding for Healthwatch England and Local Healthwatch is paid in respect of financial years, rather than calendar years;
- as Healthwatch England sit within the Care Quality Commission (CQC), funding is paid as part of the grant-in-aid budget the Department provides to the CQC each year; and
- funding for Local Healthwatch is paid to local authorities, who have a legal duty to commission a Local Healthwatch in their area.