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NHS: Finance

Volume 456: debated on Tuesday 6 February 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much Government funding was given to the NHS in each year since 1990; and how much was spent by the NHS in each year. (119188)

The following table shows the total national health service expenditure for each year since 1990—the outturn position (this is what was spent by the NHS); and Government funding given to the NHS in each year (this is inferred by adding the reported surplus/deficit position for each year to the outturn position).

NHS total expenditure: England—1990-91 to 2005-06, overall NHS surplus/deficit position

£ million

Overall NHS surplus deficit1

Net NHS expenditure2 (estimated outturn in 2005-06)

Government funding given to the NHS calculated by summing outturn to overall NHS surplus deficit position

Cash3

1990-91

125

22,326

22,201

1991-92

103

25,353

25,456

1992-93

53

27,968

28,021

1993-944

130

28,942

29,071

1994-95

25

30,590

30,615

1995-96

250

31,985

31,735

1996-97

460

32,997

32,537

1997-98

122

34,664

34,542

1998-99

19

36,608

36,589

Resource budgeting stage 15

1999-2000

129

40,201

40,072

2000-01

111

43,932

44,043

2001-02

71

49,021

49,092

2002-03

96

54,042

54,138

Resource budgeting stage 26,7

2003-04

73

64,184

64,257

2004-058

258

69,308

69,050

2005-069

547

76,339

75,792

1 Deficit figures for 1990-91 to 1995-96 are from the relevant published summarised accounts. Deficit figures for 1996-97 to 2004-05 are from audited summarisation schedules.

2 Figures are not consistent over the period (1971-72 to 2007-08), therefore it is difficult to make comparisons across different periods.

3 Expenditure pre 1999-2000 is on a cash basis, however overall NHS surplus/deficit position has been calculated from individual organisation accounts on a resource basis. Therefore, have assumed equivalence between cash and resources for these years.

4 Deficit excludes £171 million adjustment for change in policy for payment of PDC dividends.

5 Expenditure figures from 1999-2000 to 2002-03 are on a stage 1 resource budgeting basis.

6 Expenditure figures from 2003-04 to 2007-08 are on a stage 2 resource budgeting basis.

7 Figures from 2003-04 include a technical adjustment for trust depreciation.

8 Includes a technical adjustment in 2004-05 for provisions of £-1,497 million.

9 Total deficit is provisional and excludes foundation trusts.