Publication, Part of Deferred Payment Agreements
Deferred Payment Agreements - 2020-21
Official statistics
In the 'Data quality issues to note' section the 'Reported number of outstanding DPAs as at 31 March 2021' has been corrected to 6,435.
6 June 2022 14:24 PM
New Deferred Payment Agreements
In 2020-21 there were 2,605 new DPAs agreed, of which 670 were loan style.
Top-up information was reported for 2,640 new DPAs within this reporting year, of which 71.8% (1,895) were provided with no top-up.
A DPA was not provided for 1,385 requests, of which 47.0% (650) were due to client reasons.
Source: DPA collection, 2020-21, NHS Digital – see Table 3 in the Reference Data Tables
Reasons for the request (where the request resulted in a DPA being provided) were reported against 2,610 new DPAs in 2020-21, and 57.8% (1,510) of these were bridging loans to allow for the sale of the client’s property.
Source: DPA collection, 2020-21, NHS Digital – see Table 4 in the Reference Data Tables
Regional analysis
Of the total new DPAs agreed in 2020-21, the South East region agreed 525 new DPAs, which was the highest figure reported regionally, accounting for 20.2% of the national total.
London agreed 130 (5.1%) new DPAs during the reporting year, which was the lowest number reported regionally.
Source: DPA collection, 2020-21, NHS Digital – see Table 1 in the Reference Data Tables
The total value of the new DPAs agreed during 2020-21 was £47.0 million and the average value of the new DPAs was £18,000.
The North West reported the lowest average value at £9,000 compared with the South East which reported the highest (£25,000).
Source: DPA collection, 2020-21, NHS Digital – see Tables 1 and 2 in the Reference Data Tables
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