Roads: Safety
(asked on 23rd November 2016) - View Source
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 potential savings to the public purse resulting from reduced NHS spending arising from predicted reductions in road casualties for 2017.
This question was answered on 28th November 2016
The Department is unable to provide a detailed estimate of savings from the predicted reductions in road casualties in 2017.
The National Health Service has identified £22 billion of potential high level savings across the system over this parliament period to 2020-21, including savings related to hospital expenditure.