Ambulance Services
(asked on 31st October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the total funding for ambulance trusts for the current financial year; and what was the total funding for each of the five preceding years in real terms.
The following table shows the income received by National Health Service ambulance trusts for healthcare services provided in cash figures and real terms in each year from 2017/18 to 2022/23. The information for 2022/23 is the planned income for the year.
Financial year | Cash terms £'000 | Real terms £'000 |
2017/18 | 2,465,389 | 2,726,718 |
2018/19 | 2,586,946 | 2,810,920 |
2019/20 | 2,875,277 | 3,045,038 |
2020/21 | 3,491,005 | 3,474,467 |
2021/22 | 3,646,086 | 3,646,086 |
2022/23 (Planned) | 3,584,157 | 3,444,516 |
Note:
The real terms figures are calculated using the Gross Domestic Product deflators published by HM Treasury on 30 September 2022. Figures are in 2021/22 prices.