Found: influencing skills and the ability to maximise impact both internally and across Government and the NHS

Found: . • Delivering value with digital technologies - Helping NHS finance professionals to support through

Found: . • Delivering value with digital technologies - Helping NHS finance professionals to support through

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.20 of the Spring Budget 2024, HC 560, if he will take steps to ensure the (a) governance and (b) accountability of the £3.4 billion allocated to the NHS.

Answered by Laura Trott - Chief Secretary to the Treasury

The Government and NHS England have been working closely together on plans to improve productivity following the publication of the Long Term Workforce Plan last summer, including on the announcement last week of £3.4bn additional investment allowing the NHS to commit to a significant increase in productivity growth.

This investment will continue to remain subject to close work between Government and NHS, recognising its importance for ensuring the NHS’s sustainability and ability to deliver better outcomes for patients.

To support delivery of the productivity programme, Spring Budget also highlighted that an external expert advisory panel will be convened to ensure that technological and digital transformation plans have the support and challenge to deliver on its goals, with NHS England also starting reporting against new productivity metrics regularly from the second half of 2024-25. Further detail will be set out in due course

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Guidance on Department for Health and Social Care funding for non-consolidated pay awards in non-annex one organisations published in November 2023, when her Department plans to announce which NHS organisations have been successful in their funding applications.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The outcome of the applications will be communicated directly to the organisations that applied, by the end of the financial year. As this information will be commercially sensitive for these independent organisations, we do not intend to announce which organisations have been successful.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Guidance on Department for Health and Social Care funding for non-consolidated pay awards in non-annex one organisations published in November 2023, which NHS organisations have been approved for funding.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The outcome of the applications will be communicated directly to the organisations that applied, by the end of the financial year. As this information will be commercially sensitive for these independent organisations, we do not intend to announce which organisations have been successful.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the amount of ringfenced NHS dental funding that Integrated Care Boards have released to non-dentistry budgets to cover costs associated with strike action in the NHS in (a) 2023 and (b) 2024.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

NHS England provided guidance for integrated care boards (ICBs) that requires dental allocations to be ringfenced in 2023/24, with any unused resources re-directed to improve National Health Service dental access in the first instance and not spent on other services. In November 2023, NHS England confirmed that where ICBs had not spent all of their allocation on improving access to dentistry, they would be able to retain any underspend and use this to balance their bottom line and any other pressures. ICBs will decide how to use any forecast underspend in line with this guidance. We are currently considering arrangements for 2024/25.

There are no current estimates of how much dental ringfence NHS dental funding has been used to support costs associated with strike action. NHS England has issued additional funding to systems of £800 million so far in this financial year to directly cover the costs of strikes.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government what are the Barnett consequentials for each of the devolved parts of the UK of the Prime Minister's announcement of additional NHS funding for workforce planning.

Answered by Baroness Penn - Minister on Leave (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State)

Funding arrangements for the devolved administrations will continue to apply in the usual way as set out in the published Statement of Funding Policy.

The Barnett formula will apply to any changes to UK Government departmental DEL budgets.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to (a) release funding for winter planning and (b) set out priorities for winter pressures for the NHS in 2023-24.

Answered by Will Quince

We have already published our delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency services, which set out the priorities and actions to be taken to support and improve performance this year, including during the winter period. This includes the ambition to improve accident and emergency wait times to 76% of patients being admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours by March 2024, and reduce Category 2 response times to 30 minutes on average this year. The plan is backed by £1 billion of dedicated funding to support additional NHS capacity. We will continue to work closely with NHS England on the focus and priorities.

Found: reported concerns around the attractiveness o f the market to audit providers and the capacity of NHS

Found: reported concerns around the attractiveness o f the market to audit providers and the capacity of NHS

Found: Funding for member-funded schemes is provided through the NHS finance regime, and any underspends incurred

Found: Funding for member-funded schemes is provided through the NHS finance regime, and any underspends incurred

Found: NHS Finance and Escalation Update Letter from the Director General for Health and Social Care and Chief