Hansard

NHS Budget

Volume 459: debated on Wednesday 18 April 2007

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Mr. Lansley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much and what proportion of the NHS budget has been paid to non-NHS providers in each financial year since 1997-98 in (a) cash and (b) real terms. (106124)

Andy Burnham

The information is shown in the table.

Non-NHS bodies include local authorities, other statutory bodies and the independent sector.

Total cash terms (£ million)

Total real terms (£ million)

As a proportion of NHS expenditure (percentage)

1997-98

1,108.2

1,337.8

3.20

1998-99

1,230.4

1,448.5

3.36

1999-2000

1,301.2

1,501.5

3.24

2000-01

1,549.2

1,762.8

3.53

2001-02

1,793.0

1,993.0

3.66

2002-03

2,239.3

2,414.4

4.14

2003-04

3,315.9

3,471.9

5.26

2004-05

3,681.0

3,749.7

5.31

2005-06

4,435.1

4,435.1

5.81

Notes: 1. Figures include £15.0 million of spending in 2004-05 and £19.6 million in 2005-06 by NHS foundation trusts. 2. HM Treasury Gross Domestic Product Deflator used to provide the real terms figures with 2005-06 as the base year. 3. Figures for 2005-06 are provisional. Source: Annual financial returns for primary care trusts, strategic health authorities and NHS trusts for 1997-98 to 2005-06. Review and consolidated accounts of NHS foundation trusts 2005-06.