In 2022/23 ALBs were allocated
£353.3 Bn
from the UK Government
Government funding increased from
£271.91 Bn in 2020
NHS England received
£159.26 Bn
in Government funding during 2022/23
ALBs generated
£9.45 Bn
from levies and fees as a source of other income
In most cases, HM Treasury funds ALBs by allocating money to ministerial departments who then delegated it to their ALBs; the department that funds an ALB is known as its sponsoring department. Non-ministerial departments are an exception to this as they often receive money directly from HMT1, and may often act as their own sponsor, or even sponsor other ALBs. These delegated budgets are typically set years in advance, and as such may be subject to change. Due to this, the ALB budgets reported below may not directly match up with the values reported in ALB Spending, which captures actual spending outturn for 2022/23.
The departments which were allocated the most funding for their ALBs from HM Treasury in 2022/23 were Department of Health and Social Care, Department for Education, HM Revenue and Customs, Department for Transport and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Together, they were allocated £322 billion for their ALBs, which was around 91% of all Government funding for ALBs.
ALBs sponsored by Department of Health and Social Care were budgeted £163.21 billion, largely driven by the £159.26 billion allocated to NHS England.
In 2022/23, total government funding allocated to ALBs was £353.3 billion. The vast majority of this funding went to 3 bodies: NHS England (£159 billion); Education and Skills Funding Agency (£67 billion); HM Revenue and Customs (£45 billion). These bodies deliver key outputs and services on behalf of the UK Government, which is reflected in their large budgets. Collectively, the 10 largest ALBs in terms of Government funding received more than 90% of all government funding for ALBs. More detail on these ALBs can be found in the Largest ALBs section.
In 2022/23 the total budgetted income for ALBs was £362.75 billion. While the majority of funding for ALBs comes directly from the UK Government, some ALBs also generate their own income through levies and fees. All together, ALBs budgeted £9.45 Bn in income generated from levies and fees as a source of other income, representing 2.6% of all income for ALBs. The ALBs who generated the most income from levies and fees were Homes England (£1.08 billion) and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (£1.06 billion).
Most of the government funding that was allocated to ALBs by the UK Government in 2022/23 went to NDPBs, which received 62% of the total budget for ALBs. Executive Agencies and Non-Ministerial Departments received less money at 25% and 14% of the total, respectively. The bulk of all direct Government funding for NDPBs (£217.66 billion) was made up by funding for NHS England (£159.26 billion), representing 73% of this total.
From a total of 305 ALBs in 2022/23, around 110 bodies (36%) received no direct funding from the UK Government. Many of these bodies are Advisory and Tribunal NDPBs which operate using shared resources from their sponsoring department, such as the Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain (Department for Transport) and the Police Discipline Appeals Tribunal (Home Office).
In the 2019/20 Public Bodies Directory, the amount of Government funding allocated for ALBs was £271.91 billion. In 2022/23 this had risen to £353.3 billion, representing an increase of around 29.9% (£81.4 billion). While some of this increase is attributable to inflation during this period, it is also linked to the addition of Network Rail as an ALB, who received £19.24 billion in 2022/23. The largest increase in funding went to NHS England, who saw an increase of around £36.46 billion during this time period. However, this increase also reflects NHS England’s merging with Health Education England and NHS Digital, and the dissolution of Public Health England.
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NMDs also have sponsoring departments, which support their services and hold them to account for their actions. In fact, all sponsoring departments do more for ALBs than just give them money, however the exact relationship is different for every ALB.↩︎