Mr Streeting declined to answer when asked whether hospices, retirement homes and other primary care providers would be exempt from the increase.

But insisting that he was “well aware” of the pressures this would create, he said: “We have not made allocations for the coming year and I will take these representations seriously.

“This is also an opportunity for me to ask the party opposite whether or not they support the investment? Do they choose to invest in the NHS or not?

“If they oppose investment, they must tell us where they would make the cuts in the NHS… These are the choices we have made and I stand by them, the opposition will also have to set out their choices.”

“The NHS is broken”

Ed Argar, the Conservatives’ new shadow health secretary, said he was “disappointed” that Mr Streeting could not confirm that GP practices and care homes would not be exempt.

A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: “The NHS is broken, and the Secretary of State has made it clear he wants to work with doctors to get it back up and running for patients and staff. We have made difficult decisions to repair the foundations so that a £22 billion increase for the NHS and social care can be announced as part of the Budget.

“This Government is committed to recruiting more than 1,000 newly qualified GPs by cutting red tape, so patients can get the care they need, and NHS England is working to address training backlogs to to ensure that the health service has sufficient staff for the future.”