NHS: Finance
(asked on 1st November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the NHS England (1) capital allocation, and (2) capital spend, for the financial years (a) 2019–20, (b) 2020–21, and (c) 2021–22, on (i) acute hospitals, (ii) primary care and community health services, and (iii) mental health services.
The Department’s capital allocated by HM Treasury for the National Health Service is shown in the following table.
| 2019/20 | 2020/21 |
NHS England | £260,000,000 | £365,000,000 |
NHS Providers Capital Budget | £4,572,000,000 | £7,145,000,000 |
NHS England’s spend in 2019/20 was £255 million and £331 million in 2020/21.
The information on acute hospitals, primary care, community health and mental health services is not held in the format requested. However, the following table shows spend in NHS acute, mental health and community health trusts in 2019/20 and 2020/21.
| 2019/20 | 2020/21 |
NHS acute trusts | £3,435,390,000 | £5,839,004,000 |
NHS mental health trusts | £606,706,000 | £668,068,000 |
NHS community health trusts | £64,215,000 | £122,280,000 |
The financial data for 2021/22 is currently being audited and will be published in the Department’s forthcoming Annual Report and Accounts.