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 ensure that additional (a) diagnosis, (b) assessments or (c) operations will be carried out by the NHS using the funding from the Health and Care levy by 2025.

The Health and Social Care Levy provides more than £8 billion for the National Health Service in the three years to 2024/25 to specifically support elective recovery. This funding is expected to deliver the equivalent of approximately eight million more checks, scans and procedures. This will allow the NHS in England to deliver approximately 30% more elective activity by 2024/25 than before the pandemic.