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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cancer (8 September 2014)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on cancer services per capita in (a) real terms and (b) cash terms in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Debbie Abrahams (Labour)

Answer

The information is shown in the following table:

Estimated expenditure on cancer services1, 2008-09 to 2012-13, in 2012-13 prices2

Year

Cancers and tumours total (£billions)

Per capita (£)

Real terms

Cash Terms

2008-09

5.28

4.84

94.55

2009-10

5.91

5.57

107.12

2010-11

5.69

5.50

104.95

2011-12

5.57

5.50

104.52

2012-13

5.68

5.68

107.21

Sources:

Programme budgeting data, NHS England

Reference costs, Department of Health

Notes:

1Continual refinements have been made to the programme budgeting data calculation methodology since the first collection in 2003-04. The underlying data which support programme budgeting data are also subject to yearly changes. Programme budgeting data should therefore not be used to analyse changes in investment in specific service areas between years.

2These figures have been calculated using published Aggregate Primary Care Trust Programme Budgeting Data and the gross domestic product deflator, as published at 29 March 2014.


Answered by:
Jane Ellison (Conservative)
11 September 2014

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