Mental Health Services: Expenditure
(asked on 3rd December 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS funding has been allocated to mental health services in each year since 2015; and whether this funding met the NHS mental health investment standard.
The following table shows the recurrent National Health Service baseline, the total forecast mental health spend, and the proportion of NHS funding forecasted to be allocated to mental health services, which is only available in the format required under section 3(2) of the Health and Care Act 2022 from 2022/23 to 2024/25:
| 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
Recurrent NHS baseline | £142,400,000,000 | £154,700,000,000 | £164,000,000,000 |
Total forecast mental health spend | £12,600,000,000 | £13,900,000,000 | £14,800,000,000 |
Mental health share of recurrent baseline | 8.87% | 9% | 9.01% |
Source: Department of Health and Social Care Written Ministerial Statements.
The forecast figures for mental health spend are different from those in the NHS Mental Health Dashboard, which also includes spend on learning disabilities and dementia. The dashboard also compares integrated care board (ICB) mental health spend to ICB allocations, whereas the figures above compare projected total mental health spend to the recurrent NHS Mandate, which includes spending across ICBs, service development funding, and specialised commissioning.
The following table shows the number of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), now integrated care boards (ICBs), meeting the Mental Health Investment Standard (MHIS), each year from 2016/17 to 2023/24:
Year | Number of CCGs, now ICBs, meeting the MHIS |
2016/17 | 177 out of 209 CCGs |
2017/18 | 186 out of 207 CCGs |
2018/19 | 179 out of 195 CCGs |
2019/20 | 181 out of 191 CCGs |
2020/21 | 135 out of 135 CCGs |
2021/22 | 106 out of 106 CCGs |
2022/23 | 41 out of 42 ICBs |
2023/24 | 42 out of 42 ICBs |
Source: NHS Mental Health Dashboard, NHS England
Note: between 2020/21 and 2021/22, there was a methodology change in how CCG base allocation was calculated.
Calculation of the MHIS does not include spend on learning disabilities, autism, dementia, and specialised commissioning.