Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2017 to Question 63650, on clinical commissioning groups: buildings, whether the additional £127 million to fund the increase in costs is for 2016-17 only.

The £127 million is a permanent uplift to the NHS England mandate. NHS England has proposed to increase clinical commissioning group (CCGs) budgets to reflect these cost pressures in 2016/17 and 2017/18. Thereafter, and in common with all other elements of funding, NHS England is proposing to include this in the general funding allocation for CCGs as it does not generally allocate funding on the basis of specific costs, for example property costs.