Written questions

NHS: Finance

Commons · Question 126849 · Tabled 13 Apr 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 21 Apr 2026

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how NHS organisations will remain financially sustainable where activity is shifted out of acute settings.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 21 Apr 2026

Lord Darzi’s independent investigation into the National Health Service in England identified that the NHS’s current financial trajectory is not sustainable, and that spending has risen sharply and productivity has fallen. We are clear that without reform...