Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Spending Review 2025, published on 11 June 2025, how the savings in the NHS were calculated.

Details of the efficiency plan were published alongside the Spending Review, and are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/departmental-efficiency-delivery-plans

The savings are derived by applying the productivity target for each sector to the level of associated spending. Improving National Health Service productivity is backed by a nearly 50% increase to NHS technology and transformation spend since 2025/26, with a total investment of up to £10 billion by 2028/29.

The plan will deliver efficiencies across all healthcare services, such as electives, urgent and emergency care, community health, mental health, primary care, and other services, primarily through the combined impact of operational and clinical improvements, technology and digital transformation, and workforce initiatives.

These efficiencies will be reinvested back into the NHS and will support the transformation in the 10-Year Health Plan.