Mental Health Services
(asked on 16th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent in (a) cash and (b) real terms on mental health services per head of population in England in each of the last five years.
The table below shows aggregate primary care trust (PCT) expenditure on mental health disorders in cash and real terms from 2008-09 to 2012-13.
Year | £ billion (cash) | £ billion (real, 2013-14 prices) |
2008-09 | 9.79 | 10.88 |
2009-10 | 10.61 | 11.49 |
2010-11 | 10.96 | 11.55 |
2011-12 | 11.16 | 11.55 |
2012-13 | 11.28 | 11.49 |
Aggregate PCT expenditure is not yet available for 2013-14. However, NHS England advises that total mental health spending in 2013-14 was £11.362 billion with an estimated £11.664 billion planned in 2014-15, an increase of £302 million.
The table below shows how much was spent in cash and real terms on mental health disorders per head of the population, in England, from 2008-09 to 2012-13.
Year | £ per head (cash) | £ per head (real, 2013-14 prices) |
2008-09 | 191 | 212 |
2009-10 | 204 | 221 |
2010-11 | 209 | 220 |
2011-12 | 212 | 219 |
2012-13 | 213 | 217 |
Source: NHS England Programme Budget Data
This information is from NHS England’s Programme Budget data and is based aggregate PCT expenditure on mental health disorders.
Programme budgeting data cannot be used to analyse changes in investment in specific service areas between years. Users of the data should note that significant changes to the data calculation methodology were introduced in 2010-11.