NHS Expenditure

HC Deb 05 February 2001 vol 362 c399W

Mr. Derek Twigg

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the(a) planned expenditure and (b) actual expenditure was for the NHS in (i) 1997–98, (ii) 1998–99 and (iii) 1999–2000. [148816]

Mr. Denham

The information requested is set out in the table.

£million
	Planned net NHS expenditure1	Outturn net NHS expenditure
1997–98	34,368	34,664
1998–99	36,509	36,612
1999–2000	39,703	240,066
1This shows planned expenditure at the start of each financial year
2 Estimated outturn