Lord Birt – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Birt on 2016-04-11.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the public sector spend on health per head of population in real terms for each of the years from 1990–2015; and how in each of those years that compares with GDP per head.
Lord O’Neill of Gatley
The total UK Public Sector expenditure on health per head of population in real terms and GDP per head between the financial years 1990-91 and 2014-15 has been set out in the table below:
|
Real per capita (2015 £) |
Health |
GDP |
|
1990-91 |
848 |
19,624 |
|
1991-92 |
911 |
19,368 |
|
1992-93 |
980 |
19,516 |
|
1993-94 |
1,023 |
20,050 |
|
1994-95 |
1,085 |
20,793 |
|
1995-96 |
1,104 |
21,248 |
|
1996-97 |
1,093 |
21,716 |
|
1997-98 |
1,116 |
22,421 |
|
1998-99 |
1,151 |
23,066 |
|
1999-00 |
1,198 |
23,780 |
|
2000-01 |
1,280 |
24,494 |
|
2001-02 |
1,388 |
25,047 |
|
2002-03 |
1,491 |
25,640 |
|
2003-04 |
1,637 |
26,358 |
|
2004-05 |
1,748 |
26,794 |
|
2005-06 |
1,825 |
27,521 |
|
2006-07 |
1,857 |
27,927 |
|
2007-08 |
1,912 |
28,449 |
|
2008-09 |
1,986 |
27,492 |
|
2009-10 |
2,072 |
26,605 |
|
2010-11 |
2,047 |
26,898 |
|
2011-12 |
2,021 |
27,158 |
|
2012-13 |
2,022 |
27,292 |
|
2013-14 |
2,049 |
27,801 |
|
2014-15 |
2,074 |
28,361 |
The expenditure figures set out in this table are drawn from the HM Treasury Public Spending Statistics (PSS) publications.
In addition to expenditure on services by the Department of Health, this includes health expenditure by other central departments, local government and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Please Note:
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UK government expenditure on the health function is only available on a financial year basis.
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Health expenditure recording switches from a cash basis to an accruals basis in 1998-99
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Population is taken from the mid-year figure for each calendar year that falls in the respective financial year.
