Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on management and administration in each of the last five years.

The Department publishes the Administration spending outturn annually in the Departmental Annual Report and Accounts. The latest spending information can be found in the table below.

The Administration expenditure covers the running costs of the core Department, commissioning sector (NHS England and clinical commissioning groups) and all of the Department’s central government arm’s length bodies.