Richard Arkless – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Arkless on 2015-12-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how the Government plans to phase increases to funding for NHS England over the next five years; and what the Barnett consequentials of decisions on such phasing will be.
Alistair Burt
The Spending Review announced on 25 November the level of funding that the NHS in England would receive by 2020-21. The NHS will be receiving £10 billion more per year in real terms by 2020-21 than in 2014-15, which fully funds the NHS’ own plan – the ‘Five Year Forward View’. £6 billion of that £10 billion will be delivered by 2016-17. This is set out in the attached table.
The exact budget profile for NHS England will be set out in the Mandate to NHS England, due to be published shortly.
Under the Barnett Formula, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland receive a population-based proportion of changes in planned spending on comparable United Kingdom Government services in England. Changes in each devolved administration’s spending allocation, is determined by:
– the quantity of the change in planned spending in departments of the United Kingdom Government; and
– the extent to which the relevant United Kingdom programme is comparable with the services carried out by each devolved administration and each country’s population proportion.
The allocation of public expenditure between the services, including health, under the control of the devolved administrations is for the devolved administrations to determine.
