Health Services: Finance
(asked on 7th July 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people had a personal health budget in each of the year since 2012.
The information is not available in the format requested, as national personal health budget data prior to 2019 is not held. The following table shows the uptake of personal health budgets in England by the end of Quarter 4 in each financial year from 2019/20 to 2024/25:
2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
89,953 | Not available | 124,964 | 175,859 | 188,489 | 182,360 |
Source: NHS England Digital, available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/personal-health-budgets
The data under each financial year is cumulative in-year data, and for each financial year the figure shown is the number of people who had received a personal health budget in England by the end of Quarter 4.
2019/20 only includes cumulative data up to Quarter 3 due to COVID-19. No cumulative data was published up to Quarter 4 2020/21 due to COVID-19.