Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the (a) revenue and (b) capital expenditure of the NHS was spent on (i) physical health and (ii) mental health in each of the last three years.

Information on the capital and revenue spend on both mental and physical health is not held in the format requested. There is no specific measure for spending on ‘physical health’ and some spending on physical health conditions will include treatment for mental health. While spend on specialist mental health services is available, it is not known how much non-specialist activity is devoted to mental health.