Public Expenditure: Wales
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has she made of the potential impact of the Government's plans to abolish NHS England on the future amounts of health related consequential funding that the Welsh Government will receive under the Barnett formula.
Answered by Darren Jones
The Barnett formula is applied when departmental budgets change – not when departments announce changes in policy.
The Department for Health and Social Care are working through the implications of abolishing NHS England and will provide further details in due course. For any funding implications, the Barnett formula will apply in the usual way as set out in the Statement of Funding Policy.
A full breakdown of devolved government funding is set out in the Block Grant Transparency, the next iteration of which will be published in due course.
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