DHSC Annual Report & Accounts 2022-23

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 10 Jan 2024 Closed: 29 May 2024 Parliament page
In 2023, the Committee reported that the Department for Health & Social Care (DHSC) had overpaid and overordered £14.9 billion of inventory, which included PPE (£9.9 billion), COVID-19 medicines (£2.6 billion) and COVID-19 vaccines (£1.9 billion). Vast quantities of unusable and unneeded PPE were in storage awaiting disposal by recycling … Read more
4 Recommendations
27 Conclusions
1 Report
1 Oral session
2 Letters
1 Event
Activity timeline 6 events
11 Jul
2025
Report published
10 May
2024
Report published
15 Apr
2024
Correspondence
15 Apr
2024
Correspondence
13 Mar
2024
Oral evidence
13 Mar
2024
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
13 Mar 2024
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DHSC Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Andy Brittain · Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) Julian Kelly · NHS England Professor Dame Jenny Harries · UK Health Security Agency Shona Dunn · Home Office Sir Chris Wormald KCB · Department for Health and Social Care
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Thirty-First Report - Department of Health and Social Care 2022–… HC 459 10 May 2024 31 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
3 results
Clear
13 Recommendation Accepted in Part
Thirty-First Report - Department o…
DHSC published 2022-23 accounts six months after deadline, missing pre-summer recess target.
All Departments should aim to lay their accounts and those of their agencies by an administrative deadline of 30 June after the end of the financial year, and no later than the 15 Q 72 16 Qq 50–51 17 Q … Read more
Government Response
The government agrees with the recommendation and is implementing a multi-year plan to gradually bring forward the publication of accounts, targeting a return to pre-summer recess laying for the 2026-27 financial year, acknowledging significant external challenges.
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19 Conclusion Accepted in Part
Thirty-First Report - Department o…
NHS England and Department are addressing audit timeliness, but external factors still impact progress.
We challenged NHS England and the Department on the extent they were acting on the proposals to improve audit timeliness set out in their 2022–23 governance statements. NHS England stated that it had regular update meetings with all audit firms, … Read more
Government Response
The government agrees with the committee's findings and is implementing a multi-year plan to gradually improve audit timeliness, targeting a return to pre-summer recess laying for the 2026-27 financial year, while acknowledging external challenges in the local audit system.
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31 Conclusion Accepted in Part
Thirty-First Report - Department o…
NHS England faces challenges in fully recovering identified overpayments from 2022-23.
We asked NHS England whether it was pursuing recovery of the overpaid amounts identified in 2022–23. NHS England told us that it was still seeking to recover more of the overpayments, but that it did not think that it would … Read more
Government Response
The government agrees to pursue recovery of overpaid amounts where legal grounds exist and work is underway, with NHS England retaining oversight of progress, targeting completion by September 2024.
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Government Response AI assessment · 31 of 4 classified
Accepted 24
Accepted in Part 3
Acknowledged 4
Total 4 recs + 27 conclusions
Correspondence 2 letters
15 Apr 2024 Correspondence from Andy Brittain, Director General Finance, Department of Health and Social Care, re Public Accounts Committee hearing: Department for Health and Social Care’s Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, dated 27 March 2024
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15 Apr 2024 Correspondence from Julian Kelly, Chief Financial Officer, NHS England, re DHSC Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, dated 26 March 2024
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