Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Earl Howe on 22 October (HL Deb, col 631), what has been the cost of the reforms introduced under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 in (1) 2012, and (2) 2013; and what are the anticipated costs in (3) 2014, and (4) 2015.
The cost of the reforms have been recorded by financial year as follows:
2010-11 £199 million
2011-12 £264 million
2012-13 £633 million
2013-14 £220 million
We anticipate the future costs will be below £180 million and within the £1.5 billion as announced in my Written Ministerial Statement of 23 July 2014, columns WS135-136. The majority of the remaining anticipated costs are expected to be incurred in 2014-15.
These costs have been more than covered by the savings arising from the Health and Social Care Act, which up to 31 March 2014, were approximately £4.9 billion.