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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health Services: Greater London (18 February 2019)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of total NHS funding is spent in the Greater London area in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)

Answer

Spending in Greater London and as a percentage of the total NHS England Mandate is shown in the following table. The spending may include services for people not living in London.

Financial year

Total spending for Greater London (£ million)

Greater London spend as a % of total NHS England Mandate

2017-18

18,600

17%

2016-17

17,800

17%

2015-16

17,300

17%

2014-15

16,700

17%

2013-14

16,200

17%

Notes:

  1. The spend includes all areas of direct commissioning and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), and also relevant administration and programme budgets.
  2. Commissioning categories included: CCG direct commissioning; health and justice; NHS England central programme costs; NHS England running costs; other; primary care and secondary dental; public health; social care; and, specialised commissioning.
  3. The spend figures for CCGs are presented on an International Financial Reporting Standards basis, compared against the total resource departmental expenditure limit mandate for NHS England.
  4. The spend figures may exclude some transformation budgets that are deployed nationally.
  5. The spend figures for specialised include all specialised spend with London providers, which will include spend on patients from outside of London.


Answered by:
Stephen Hammond (Conservative)
26 February 2019

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