NHS: Prescription Drugs

(asked on 8th June 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Jim Cunningham Portrait
Jim Cunningham
(Labour - Coventry South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the amount paid by the NHS to pharmaceutical companies for prescription drugs in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 13th June 2016

The information requested is in the table.

Year

Primary care drugs spend (1)

Secondary care drugs spend

Total drugs spend

Outturn (£ m)

Outturn (£ m)

Outturn (£ m)

2004/05

7,376

2,595

9,971

2005/06

7,235

2,764

9,999

2006/07

7,593

2,969

10,562

2007/08

7,663

3,274

10,937

2008/09

7,749

3,647

11,397

2009/10

7,946

3,974

11,920

2010/11

8,280

4,257

12,537

2011/12

8,243

4,482

12,725

2012/13(2)

7,887

5,055

12,941

2013/14(3)

8,015

5,324

13,339

2014/15

8,206

5,897

14,103

Sources:

  1. Primary care figures to 2012-13 are from Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) audited summarisation schedules. Figures from 2013-14 are from the Department’s annual report and accounts.
  2. Secondary care figures are from National Health Service trusts, PCT finance returns and foundation trust year-end accounts. Finance returns were not collected after 2011/12; figures for NHS trusts in 2012/13 are estimates.
  3. Secondary care figures from 2013-14 are from Monitor and NHS Trust Development Authority.

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