Care Trusts: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the annual budget for each individual NHS care trust was in each of the last five years.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The trust accounts consolidation data publications for National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts include total operating income and expenditure, and are available for the last five financial years. Data for 2024/25 is currently being finalised for publication. This information is publicly available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/financial-accounting-and-reporting/nhs-providers-tac-data-publications/
NHS England does not set annual budgets for individual trusts. Trusts earn income from their NHS commissioners for the clinical services they provide, as well as local authorities, private patient work, research, and other sources such as car parking. Trusts submit financial plans to NHS England for agreement that will reflect their planned income and expenditure, and performance against the plan is then monitored through the course of the financial year.
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