Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding from the public purse that was allocated to capital accounts in the NHS has been transferred to revenue accounts in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

Figures are available from 2011-12 when the budgetary framework and Departmental group structure was changed as a result of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010.

The transfers from the Department’s Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (CDEL) to the Revenue Departmental Expenditure Limit (RDEL) are set out below. No transfers were made between 2011-12 and 2013-14.

2014-15:

- £640 million was transferred from the Department’s CDEL budget to the RDEL.

2015-16:

- £950 million was transferred from the Department’s CDEL budget to the RDEL.

2016-17:

- £1,200 million was transferred from the Department’s CDEL budget to the RDEL.