Charlotte Leslie – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlotte Leslie on 2016-03-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of government NHS funding which primary care was allocated to in each of the last three years.
Alistair Burt
The table below shows the total National Health Service expenditure and total primary healthcare expenditure for the last three years for which audited outturn data is available. This includes primary medical care, primary dental services, primary eyecare services, community pharmacy and drugs prescribed in the community.
The Department accounts data has been used as a consistent data source across primary care services. However, this excludes some funding streams to general medical practice, such as for out of hours services.
|
Year |
NHS Revenue Expenditure under Clear Line of Sight Rules (£ billion) |
Expenditure on Primary Healthcare (£ billion) |
Primary Healthcare Expenditure as a % of NHS Revenue Expenditure |
|
2012-13 |
102.57 |
21.32 |
20.79 |
|
2013-14 |
106.50 |
21.32 |
20.02 |
|
2014-15 |
110.56 |
21.68 |
19.61 |
