Speeches

Royston Smith – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Royston Smith on 2016-03-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of NHS funding was provided to GP surgeries in each of the last five years

Alistair Burt

NHS England has confirmed that the funding it invests in general practice will increase by an average of 4.5% each year from 2016/17 to 2020/21.

The below table shows the proportion of spend on general practice for each of the last five years for which data is available. The figures for spend on general practice are taken from the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s Investment in General Practice 2011-2015 report, which is the most comprehensive source of data on investment in general practice. The NHS Revenue Expenditure data is taken from the Department’s accounts.

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

NHS Revenue Expenditure under Clear Line of Sight Rules (£ billion)

97.47

100.27

102.57

106.5

110.56

Spend on general practice (£ billion)

8.350

8.397

8.459

8.766

9.001

Spend on General Practice as a proportion of total

8.6%

8.4%

8.2%

8.2%

8.1%