Armed Forces: Health Professions
(asked on 18th October 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding was allocated to medical and dental services for the armed forces in each year since 2015.
The Headquarters of the Defence Medical Services (HQ DMS) is responsible for healthcare to the Armed Forces. The HQ DMS Higher Level Budget allocation for Financial Years 2015-2016 to 2021-2022 is provided in the table below.
Financial Year | £ million |
2015-16 | 499.57 |
2016-17 | 505.54 |
2017-18 | 482.91 |
2018-19 | 473.94 |
2019-20 | 499.15 |
2020-21 | 501.52 |
2021-22 | 522.69 |
There is other expenditure on healthcare by the single Services that is not accounted for centrally. This information could not be provided in the time available so I will write to the hon. Member.