Health Services: Finance

(asked on 10th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much NHS funding has been allocated to (a) South Tyneside, (b) the North East and (c) the UK in each year since 1997.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 18th January 2017

Funding is not allocated by the Department on a regional basis. Overall spending limits are agreed with NHS England and other arm’s length bodies on an annual basis.

National Health Service trusts are not funded directly by the Department. They are semi-autonomous organisations who fund their activity via income derived from the provision of services to commissioners.

Income levels are agreed between local commissioners and providers based on levels of activity within local health economy which are inherently volatile from year to year.

The Department reports total spending incurred each year by bodies within the departmental group for England, in its Annual Report and Accounts. The 2015-16 Department of Health Annual Report and Accounts can be found on the Department’s website via the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539602/DH_Annual_Report_Web.pdf

Total departmental spending outturns from 2007-08 to 2015-16 can be found on page 178, annex A, Core Table 1.

Spending in the rest of the United Kingdom are a matter for the devolved administrations.

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