Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of NHS England's budget is spent on (a) administration and (b) administering the internal market.

NHS England’s budget is set out in the annual Financial Directions to NHS England, that accompany the NHS Mandate. The latest can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-mandate-2016-to-2017

NHS England allocates resources to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) who are responsible for the planning and commissioning of health care services for their local area.

NHS England’s total Revenue Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) is £105,836 million. The Administration Expenditure limit for NHS England group including CCGs is £1,824 million. This equals 1.7% of the total NHS England Revenue DEL. Of this total NHS England centrally has an Administration Expenditure limit of £533 million for its functions.

This is the full limit of administration costs across NHS England and CCGs. No further breakdown is available.