Publication, Part of Deferred Payment Agreements
Deferred Payment Agreements Report, England - 2019-20
Official statistics
New Deferred Payment Agreements
In 2019-20 there were 3,415 new DPAs agreed, of which 880 were loan style.
•Top-up information was reported for 3,450 new DPAs within this reporting year, of which 70.7% (2,440) were provided with no top-up.
A DPA was not provided for 1,610 requests, of which 57.2% (920) were due to client reasons.
Source: DPA collection, 2019-20, 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 3,410 new DPAs in 2019-20, and 55.4% (1,890) of these were bridging loans to allow for the sale of the client’s property.
Source: DPA collection, 2019-20, NHS Digital – see Table 4 in the Reference Data Tables
Regional analysis
Of the total new DPAs agreed in 2019-20, the South East region agreed 615 new DPAs, which was the highest figure reported regionally, accounting for 18.0% of the national total.
London agreed 160 (4.7%) new DPAs during the reporting year, which was the lowest number reported regionally.
Source: DPA collection, 2019-20, NHS Digital – see Table 1 in the Reference Data Tables
The total value of the new DPAs agreed during 2019-20 was £53.2 million and the average value of the new DPAs was £16,000.
The North West reported the lowest average value at £10,000 compared with London which reported the highest (£29,000).
Source: DPA collection, 2019-20, NHS Digital – see Tables 1 and 2 in the Reference Data Tables
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