Publication, Part of Deferred Payment Agreements
Deferred Payment Agreements, 2023-24
Official statistics
Written-off and Recovered Deferred Payment Agreements
Recovered DPAs
£90.3 million was fully recovered from DPAs that concluded during 2023-24, which related to 2,295 DPAs.
Regionally, the South East reported the highest number (480) of concluded DPAs that were fully recovered, which is 20.8% of all DPAs that were fully recovered in England.
The East Midlands region reported the lowest number (105) fully recovered DPAs, amounting to 4.7% of the England total.
Source: DPA collection, 2023-24, NHS England– see Table 1 in the Data Tables
Nationally, there were 2,295 recovered DPAs during 2023-24. However, when analysed by the reason for the DPA ending the total was 2,300. This was 46.0% / 54.0% split by reason for conclusion, with 1,060 concluding due to death of the holder and 1,245 concluding during the lifetime of the holder.
This varies regionally, with the West Midlands region having the lowest (36.0%) and London having the highest proportion (54.3%) concluding due to the death of the holder.
Source: DPA collection, 2023-24, NHS England – see Table 6 in the Data Tables
For the 1,060 DPAs that concluded due to the death of the holder, 33.1% (350) had been in place for more than 36 months.
Of the 1,245 DPAs that concluded during the lifetime of the holder, 25.5% (315) had been in place for six months or less.
Whilst overall, 46.0% of DPAs conclude due to the death of the holder, the longer the duration of the DPA, the higher this proportion is (25.9% due to death in 6 months or less, increasing to 72.9% concluding due to death after 36 months).
Source: DPA collection, 2023-24, NHS England – see Table 7 in the Data Tables
Written-off DPAs
The total value written-off was £1.5 million from 55 DPAs that concluded during 2023-24.
Last edited: 31 October 2024 9:31 am