NHS: Finance

(asked on 3rd June 2020) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the net increase in £million per week of the budget for the NHS will be following the passing of the NHS funding bill for the years (a) 2020-1 (b) 2021-22, (c) 2022-3 and (d) 2023-4.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 8th June 2020

The NHS funding bill placed into law the historic increases to the NHS resource budget which were agreed for the five years from 2019-20.

The NHS resource budget is set on an annual basis with the NHS determining the weekly profile of their spending, but the bill guarantees- as a minimum- the following annual cash increases as compared to the 2018-19 year:

(a) 2020-21: £12,404m

(b) 2021-22: £18,680m

(c) 2022-23: £25,387m

(d) 2023-24: £33,864m

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