Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what they expect will be the total expenditure on the National Health Service for each of the years 2014–15 and 2015–16.

The Department expects to spend £113.3 billion in 2014-15 and £116.6 billion in 2015-16 on health and social care, of which £98.1 billion and £101.1 billion respectively was allocated to NHS England to commission health services.

These figures represent total Departmental Expenditure Limit spending and include National Health Service commissioners, NHS providers, the Department of Health itself and its arm’s length bodies, including Public Health England and Health Education England.