Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 70860

NHS: Finance

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 10 September 2025

Question

Christine Jardine

Liberal DemocratEdinburgh West

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of poverty on NHS spending.

Answer

Karin Smyth
Integrated care boards receive funding allocations from NHS England to pay for the services they commission. Most funding is allocated as a non-ringfenced budget, informed by a calculation of what would constitute a “fair share” of funding based on a form...

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