NHS: Expenditure

Mr. Hancock
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent on (a) NHS hospital and community health services, (b) NHS maternity services and (c) other NHS costs in 2006-07.

Andrew George
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent on (a) the NHS, (b) NHS hospital and community health services and (c) NHS maternity services in the 2006-07 financial year as referred to in the answer of 25 June 2007, Official Report, column 266W, on NHS: finance.

Mr. Bradshaw
Expenditure for 2006-07 (England) is shown in the following table:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |Expenditure (£ million)|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|National health service                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |80,884                 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|NHS hospital and community health services (HCHS)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |46,853                 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|NHS maternity services                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |1,617                  |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|Notes: 1. NHS expenditure is the total NHS net revenue expenditure. 2. HCHS maternity services are derived from data in the summarised accounts which relates to community or secondary health care and this includes the purchase of health care from non-NHS providers. 3. The maternity services expenditure shown is included within the HCHS figure, which is already included under the total net NHS revenue expenditure.|                       |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------