Question follow-through · 73712
Hospitals: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average per-patient spend is in (a) all hospitals and (b) the top quartile of efficient hospitals.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average per-patient spend is in (a) all hospitals and (b) the top quartile of efficient hospitals.
3 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2025
Answer published
NHS England collects information on the costs of NHS trusts delivering services to patients, the detail of which is available at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/costing-in-the-nhs/national-cost-collection/.Comparing the average cost per pat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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