PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Maternity Services: Finance (4 February 2022)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the NHS budget was spent on NHS maternity services in each year since 2015.
Asked by:
Taiwo Owatemi (Labour)
Asked by:
Taiwo Owatemi (Labour)
Answer
The information requested is shown in the following table. This is taken from Reference Costs data to 2019/20, the most recent data available.
Financial year | Proportion of National Health Service budget |
2015/16 | 2.5% |
2016/17 | 2.6% |
2017/18 | 2.6% |
2018/19 | 2.5% |
2019/20 | 2.3% |
Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
15 March 2022
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