The average real terms increase in national health service total net expenditure for the period 1996-97 to 2005-06 is 6.3 per cent.
The real terms increase year on year from 1996-97 to 2005-06 is included in the following table.
Net NHS Expenditure1 (£billion) Percentage increase Percentage real terms increase2 Cash3 1996-97 Outturn 32.997 3.2 0.2 1997-98 Outturn 34.664 5.1 2.1 1998-99 Outturn 36.608 5.6 3.0 1999-00 Outturn 39.881 8.9 6.8 RB Stage 14 1999-2000 Outturn 40.201 — — 2000-01 Outturn 43.932 9.3 7.8 2001-02 Outturn 49.021 11.6 9.0 2002-03 Outturn 54.042 10.2 6.9 RB Stage 2,5,6 2003-04 Outturn 64.183 — — 2004-057 Outturn 69.306 8.0 5.1 Estimated 2005-06 Outturn 77.847 12.3 10.2 1. Figures are not consistent over the period (1996-97 to 2005-06), therefore it is difficult to make comparisons across different periods. 2. Figures from 2003-04 include a technical adjustment for trust depreciation. 3. Expenditure pre 1999-00 is on a cash basis. 4. Expenditure figures from 2003-04 to 2005-06 are on a Stage 2 Resource Budgeting basis. 5. Expenditure figures from 1999-00 to 2002-03 are on a Stage 1 Resource Budgeting basis. 6. The Resource Budgeting Stage 2 expenditure figures shown for 2004-05 to 2005-06 are consistent with table 3.4 of the 2006 Departmental Report. 7. Includes a technical adjustment in 2004-05 for provisions of £-1,497 million. Note: GDP deflator as at 27 September 2006