Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 89789

NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes: Finance

Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 19 November 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

ConservativeMid Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2025 to Question 73482 on Integrated Care Boards: Finance, if he will make an estimate of the potential impact of the use of five-year population projections o

Answer

Karin Smyth
Allocations are determined through a complex, weighted capitation formula that incorporates multiple factors beyond population projections, including age, sex, need, and cost adjustments. Isolating the effect of a single component would not accurately ref...

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