Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what was the annual spend on wheelchair and postural seating services over the last 10 years.

The Minister of State for Social Care (Helen Whately MP) has Ministerial responsibility for disabilities.

From 2015, the former clinical commissioning groups were required to report total expenditure to include assessment, service and equipment provision, repair and maintenance. The following table shows annual reported expenditure on National Health Service wheelchair and postural seating services in England in each year from 2015/16 to 2021/22. Data is not available for 2020/21 as wheelchair services were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic and data collection was paused from Quarter 4 2019/20. This also affects the total reported expenditure in 2019/20.