Mental Health Services: Expenditure

(asked on 16th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the real terms changes in spending on mental health services have been in each year from 2009-10 to date.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 22nd June 2021

Data prior to 2015/16 is not held in the format requested. The real terms increase for 2015/16 is not available as we do not hold the data for 2014/15. The latest data available is for financial year 2019/20. The following table shows the year on year increase and total spend on mental health services, including learning disabilities and dementia. Information relating to community mental health services is not available in the format requested.

Year

Total National Health Service spend on mental health £ million

Year on year real terms increase1 £ million

2015/16

10,978.9

-

2016/17

11,601.9

374.0

2017/18

11,976.0

177.7

2018/19

12,513.2

264.7

2019/20

13,324.8

529.6

Source: NHS Mental Health Dashboard, NHS England and NHS Improvement

Note:

1 Growth adjusted for inflation based on Gross Domestic Product deflators, 31 March 2021

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