Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase funding for (a) the NHS and social care and (b) new commitments in the 10 Year Plan.

The Department’s settlement at the Spending Review in 2021 provides a £43.9 billion cash increase in this Parliament to £177.4 billion in 2024/25. This ensures the National Health Service resource budget in England will increase to £162.6 billion in 2024/25, from £123.7 billion in 2019/20. In December 2021, we published ‘People at the Heart of Care’ which set out measures to reform adult social care, supported by £5.4 billion over three years.