Speeches

Grahame Morris – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Grahame Morris on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on management and administration in each of the last five years.

Mr Philip Dunne

The Department publishes the Administration spending outturn annually in the Departmental Annual Report and Accounts. The latest spending information can be found in the table below.

2011-12 £ million

2012-13 £ million

2013-14 £ million

2014-15 £ million

2015-16 £ million

Administration Outturn

3,307

3,502

3,036

2,781

2,421

The Administration expenditure covers the running costs of the core Department, commissioning sector (NHS England and clinical commissioning groups) and all of the Department’s central government arm’s length bodies.