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NHS Trusts: Fines

Asked by James McMurdockIndependentTreasuryTabled Answered 16 December 2025UIN 98307

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2025 to Question 94583 on Public Bodies: Fines, whether her Department plans to ringfence fines against NHS trusts for health-related spending.

Answered by James Murray

Income from fines, whether imposed by the courts or regulators, is in the most part returned to the Consolidated Fund and this income is not disaggregated by source.

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