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NHS: Expenditure

Answer

The below table shows the average weekly and yearly expenditure on the National Health Service in real terms and nominally, each year since 2016, including spending against the Revenue Departmental Expenditure Limit (RDEL) by NHS England, the integrated care boards, and providers:

Year	RDEL spend per year in nominal terms	RDEL spend per year in real terms	RDEL spend per week in real terms
2016/17	£105,735,000,000	£125,293,000,000	£2,409,000,000
2017/18	£109,605,000,000	£127,879,000,000	£2,459,000,000
2018/19	£114,331,000,000	£130,634,000,000	£2,512,000,000
2019/20	£123,750,000,000	£138,145,000,000	£2,657,000,000
2020/21	£143,367,000,000	£151,775,000,000	£2,919,000,000
2021/22	£149,322,000,000	£159,379,000,000	£3,065,000,000
2022/23	£158,347,000,000	£158,347,000,000	£3,045,000,000

Source: table 66 of the Department of Health and Social Care’s annual report.

Note: figures have been adjusted for inflation using HM Treasury’s gross domestic product deflators, as of April 2024.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

22657

Session

2023-24

Subjects

Expenditure NHS

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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