Table 3.

Annual average real growth rates in UK public spending on health, selected periods

Period	Financial years	Average annual real growth rate
Whole period	1949/50 to 2016/17	3.7%
Pre-1979 (various governments)	1949/50 to 1978/79	3.5%
Thatcher and Major Conservative governments	1978/79 to 1996/97	3.3%
Blair and Brown Labour governments	1996/97 to 2009/10	6.0%
Coalition government	2009/10 to 2014/15	1.1%
Cameron and May Conservative governments	2014/15 to 2016/17	2.3%

Reproduced with permission from Charlesworth A, Johnson P (eds). Securing the future: funding health and social care to the 2030s. The Institute for Fiscal Studies: London, 2018.⁵