Claim: Health spending is set to account for 44% of day-to-day public spending the year after next, so roughly 50p in the pound of all taxes levied will soon go to the health service.
Fact-check: Health spending isn't set to account for almost half of all taxes - Full Fact
Verdict: while health is forecast to account for 44% of budgeted departmental spending in 2024/25, this figure doesn't factor in all other public spending. looking at public spending as a whole, the proportion spent on health is much lower.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2022-06-17T00:00:00