Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of the NHS budget has been spent on (1) clinical negligence payments, (2) insurance premiums, and (3) legal fees, for each of the last five years.
A table showing total expenditure on clinical negligence, insurance premiums and legal fees for the past five years, and as a percentage of Department’s Total Departmental Expenditure Limit, has been attached owing to the size of the data.