HC Deb 26 February 2001 vol 363 c429W
Miss Geraldine Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of growth in real terms of NHS funding by 2004. [149129]

Mr. Denham

National Health Service expenditure is planned to increase by around 5.8 pet cent. in real terms in each of the next three years. This is on top of the planned real-terms increase of 8.4 per cent. for this year. Over all four years, the NHS will benefit from an average annual increase in real terms of 6.4 per cent.—the largest ever sustained increase in NHS funding over such a period.

Mr. Harvey

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the planned funding will be for(a) the NHS and (b) personal social services in (i) Wales, (ii) Scotland and (iii) Northern Ireland per head of population in 2000–01. [150693]

Mr. Hutton

Issues relating to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are matters for the devolved Assemblies.