PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
NHS: Software (5 December 2023)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) development and (b) maintenance of the NHS app in each of the last five years.
Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
Answer
The NHS App was created in 2019. The following table shows the costs to develop, or transform, and run and maintain the NHS App in each financial year since 2019:
Financial year | 2019/20 (£ million) | 2020/21 (£ million) | 2021/22 (£ million) | 2022/23 (£ million) |
Transform | 10.6 | 7.8 | 6.4 | 10.9 |
Run/Maintain | 3.6 | 4.3 | 6.2 | 13.0 |
Total | 14.2 | 12.1 | 12.6 | 23.9 |
Answered by:
Andrew Stephenson (Conservative)
11 December 2023
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