NHS: Per Capita Costs

(asked on 10th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how much the NHS costs each household in England per year.


Answered by
Lord Markham Portrait
Lord Markham
Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)
This question was answered on 26th January 2023

The National Health Service is funded through general taxation and not as a discrete charge to individual households.

A hypothetical calculation can be done to estimate the average cost of the NHS per household using two statistics: the NHS resource (revenue) budget 2021/22, which is £150.6 billion, and the Office for National Statistics housing count for England, which is 23.4 million (at Census 2021).

Based on a division of these statistics, in 2021/22, the average cost per household computes to approximately £6,430.

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