The House of Commons budget allocated for health and wellbeing services provided by external providers during 2013-14 is approximately £100,000. Of this, £87,000 is for the provision of a consultant occupational health physician service; the costs for this service cover both Members and staff, and cannot be split between the two.

Specific to staff of the House, approximately £11,000 is spent on a physiotherapy service and some £2,000 has been allocated for counselling services. Counselling is also provided in-house by the welfare officers. There is also a parliamentary gym, which is funded by user subscriptions. In addition, just over £20,000 is expected to be spent on training courses relating to Health and Safety, a number of which are related to health and wellbeing issues.

There is no specific well-being budget for staff of the House: support for well-being is in the form of the staff welfare service and medical services. The annual cost of the welfare function for House of Commons staff is £65,000 representing the salary costs of the welfare officers. The annual cost to the House of the medical services is £199,800. This cost includes the annual contract with St Thomas’ hospital to provide occupational health services, plus the salaries of the nurses who are employed by the House. These services are used by both Members and staff and it is not possible to disaggregate costs between these two groups.