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NHS-specific Inflation

Volume 460: debated on Monday 14 May 2007

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Mr. Lansley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 18 April 2006, Official Report, column 247W, on NHS-specific inflation, what the NHS-specific inflation index was for each year since 1997-98. (131926)

Andy Burnham

The following table reports, from 1997-98 to 2005-06 the hospital and community health service (HCHS) pay and prices, HCHS capital, and family health service (FHS) indices, which together account for more than 95 per cent. of total net national health service expenditure.

Percentage

Pay and prices

Capital

FHS

1997-98

1.7

4.2

3.0

1998-99

4.0

3.0

3.0

1999-2000

4.5

2.8

4.1

2000-01

4.2

5.7

2.7

2001-02

5.1

6.5

2.1

2002-03

3.5

4.5

3.9

2003-04

5.2

4.8

4.6

2004-05

3.3

7.6

n/a

2005-06

3.7

2.4

n/a

Notes:

1. Provisional data subject to revision.

2. The indices above cover more than 95 per cent. of total net NHS expenditure.

3. From 2004-05 the FHS index is no longer available due to the introduction of the new general medical services (GMS) contract leading to a discontinuity in the GMS/personal medical services data series. Consequently, from 2004-05, the NHS inflation index is no longer calculable.