NHS: Finance
(asked on 15th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much additional funding, in real terms, they have committed to the NHS for the year 2017–18; and what are the comparable figures for each of the previous 20 years.
The Government has committed an additional 2.1% funding in real terms to the National Health Service for the year 2017-18. This is the extra money being given through the NHS England Mandate to front-line services. The following table sets out the comparable figures back to 2013-14, when NHS England was created.
Year | NHS England Mandate (cash) £ billion | Real terms increase % (2017-18 prices) |
2017-18 | 109.9 | 2.1 |
2016-17 | 106.0 | 3.2 |
2015-16 | 100.5 | 2.6 |
2014-15 | 97.3 | 1.3 |
2013-14 | 94.7 |
Prior to 2013-14, NHS funding was measured only through the Department’s departmental expenditure limit. A series of tables showing the Department’s total departmental expenditure limit from 1997-98 to 2013-14 is attached, due to the size of the data. During this period, the Government method of accounting changed from cash to a resource budgeting basis. The figures in different stages of the accounting change are not comparable.